From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 24 15:14:47 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D80E737B401 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 15:14:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A77F43EB2 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 15:14:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1043882084.284178@mired.org) Received: (qmail 87642 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2003 23:14:44 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 24 Jan 2003 23:14:44 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15921.51426.160078.432759@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:14:42 -0600 To: Cc: "FBSDQ" Subject: Re: Is the Kernel device config visual interface still necessary In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.68 (Shut Out) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In , JoeB typed: > My question, what purpose does the 'Kernel Device Configuration > Visual Interface' screen serve and can people safely use the 'Skip > kernel configuration and continue with installation' from the > 'Kernel configuration menu'? Most people can probably skip the kernel configuration section. Not everyone can, though - which is why it needs to be there. My path when installing on new hardware is to boot without doing the kernel config. If there are problems, I try again, this time doing the kernel config to deal with the hardware that's giving me problems. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message