From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 6 23:11: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8C5C14F57 for ; Wed, 6 Oct 1999 23:10:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA12713; Thu, 7 Oct 1999 15:40:19 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3.1 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 15:40:19 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: The Hermit Hacker Subject: RE: modules: how to use? Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 07-Oct-99 The Hermit Hacker wrote: > Looking in /modules, I saw 'procfs', so, cool, a place to start...remove > "options PROCFS" from kernel config, rebuild, install and reboot ... > so, I figure that I somehow have to tell the kernel to load that module? Well its a kld.. You don't have to reboot.. Since its a VFS module mount will load it automatically anyway.. Maybe a better place to start would be linux emulation.. The 'linux' shell script basically does a kldload linux Have a look at /boot/defaults/loader.conf for stuff you can load as a module before the kernel is executed. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message