Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:17:10 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Custom kernel config questions for Linux user Message-ID: <20050622190904.M25941@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <42BA0AAE.2000502@u.washington.edu> References: <42BA0AAE.2000502@u.washington.edu>
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On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Garrett Cooper wrote: > I was wondering if anyone could provide me an answer to the following > questions. Please keep in mind that by default I learned Unix on a Linux > system, so... please no flames :(. > 1) Is there any sort of configuration interface (ncurses, X, etc), or am I > 'stuck' with 'manually configuring' a textfile? sysinstall does some of that. Personally, I find plain text files much easier to deal with than most semi-automated helper programs. There are things like webmin in the ports collection. > 2) Is there a complete list of features which can be enabled for the > kernel, other what was in the GENERIC configuration file? See the LINT (4.x) or NOTES (5.x) files in the same directory. > 3) What is needed for the FreeBSD kernel and what modules need to be > compiled in order to use IDE CD-burning. In linux previous to kernel version > 2.6.8 I know that SCSI was required, but now they are doing proper IDE > emulation. 'man burncd' will show details about the stock IDE CD burning application. If you want to use SCSI emulation, there's the atapicam device. The man page for that shows setup. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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