From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 9 20:10:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA29772 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 20:10:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA29762 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 1997 20:10:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id MAA01883; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 12:40:41 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970910124041.51246@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 12:40:41 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Khelbin Sunvold Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSD newbie installer...almost ready References: <19970910095536.34451@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: ; from Khelbin Sunvold on Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 10:54:24PM -0400 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 10:54:24PM -0400, Khelbin Sunvold wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > >>> a) If I find a conflict...what do I do..remove the conflicting >>> driver/whatever? >> >> You mean conflicts in UserConfig? Mainly, you can ignore them. >> They're only a problem if they're backed by real hardware. >> >>> b) Is it best to remove the drivers etc which don't appear relevant? >> >> No. >> >>> What if I just leave them? >> >> They'll look for the hardware, not find it, and give up. > > If you leave drivers you don't need isn't the following true: > > A) The kernel will be larger than necessary Yes. > B) It will take longer to boot the machine Yes. > C) If they are backed by real hardware you can have problems Yes. > D) ep0 may have been buggy and didn't like anything else at I/O > 0x300??? Yes, there were problems of that nature. > If so, why leave drivers in that have conflicts when you don't need > them unless you are just lazy? No reason. But I'm lazy too. If you take the time it takes to build a new kernel, which involves you too, it will make up for a lot of slightly longer boot times. And it will take up *much* more space than the few kilobytes of excess drivers. > If you get a new piece of hardware you can just run > /stand/sysinstall... right? or wrong? Sorry, this one's wrong. You need to build a new kernel. Greg