From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 17 19:12:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 838A414C96 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 19:12:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA15947; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 22:13:05 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199908180213.WAA15947@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Kernel configuration nitty-gritty In-Reply-To: <199908180200.WAA21919@all-night-tool.mit.edu> from Alex at "Aug 17, 99 10:00:58 pm" To: xela@MIT.EDU (Alex) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 22:13:05 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alex wrote, > Hi all--- > > I'm configuring my first FreeBSD kernel (having a fair amount of > experience with NetBSD kernels). I'm finding the kernel configuration > chapter of the FreeBSD handbook quite helpful, but not comprehensive > (whereas the NetBSD options(4) man page is comprehensive but not > helpful). For instance, it is not at all clear to me what > > options "CD9660_ROOT" #CD-ROM usable as root. "CD9660" req'ed > > means. I have some guesses, one of which is probably right, but.... > And zgrepping through /usr/share/man/cat* for that string garners > no hits at all.... > > Is there some other place I should be looking for documentation on > this sort of thing, or is it time to read the source? See the 'LINT' kernel, /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT In there, ##################################################################### # FILESYSTEM OPTIONS # # Only the root, /usr, and /tmp filesystems need be statically # compiled; everything else will be automatically loaded at mount # time. (Exception: the UFS family---FFS, and MFS --- cannot # currently be demand-loaded.) Some people still prefer to statically # compile other filesystems as well. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message