From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 04:24:33 2005 Return-Path: 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 0DD7016A4CF for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 04:24:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97A6943D2D for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 04:24:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id j1so782051rnf for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:24:32 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=osxD7kyKkMjgnoLSdww04mhH4fWcGi1vXZ7XbEq2PMf/RSdVZd4eGwEGFZkzkGVwHvGSJQfontyE0cA6RYWhs3cjpSnZhjMt9QWAk6wZaxujA/MhabOQrNsIjkNk5LBdiXXv6UaPXc+EFHVEkf1+ials7lxP1rwVhHxGYrJcymU= Received: by 10.38.65.62 with SMTP id n62mr147102rna; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:24:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.14.51 with HTTP; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:24:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <57d7100005021420245dc6c12d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:24:29 -0800 From: pete wright To: Peterhin In-Reply-To: <200502142240.24550.hindrich@worldchat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200502142117.03689.hindrich@worldchat.com> <200502142047.53751.algould@datawok.com> <200502142240.24550.hindrich@worldchat.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel Config. Menu.? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: pete wright List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 04:24:33 -0000 On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:40:24 -0500, Peterhin wrote: > I am using 5.3. > My question would be how current is the handbook, I was under the > impression that it was the most current of all the sources for Freebsd. > Am I wrong.? which URL are you getting the handbook from, I've just checked the install section of the online handbook here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-start.html and it states: " Note: From FreeBSD versions 5.0 and later, userconfig has been deprecated in favor of the new device.hints(5) method. For more information on device.hints(5) please visit Section 12.5" hope this helps. -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group