5.2-RC2 customize questions

J.D. Bronson jeff_bronson at wixb.com
Thu Jan 1 13:21:58 PST 2004


At 03:15 PM 1/1/2004, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
>On Thursday 01 January 2004 21:59, J.D. Bronson wrote:
> > I have installed 5.2RC2 on i386 and have all of it working well (including
> > ACPI with HTT)
> >
> > Since I am much more familiar with the 4.x flavor, is there any web area
> > that explains the following:
> >
> > 1. it seems alot of startup was moved to /etc/rc.d...thats cool, but I dont
> > see the connection as to how things in there are being invoked?
>
>I just can tell you that RCng was merged from NetBSD some months ago.
>
> >
> > 2. How can I get rid of the boot menu and boot 5.2 like 4.x ?
>
>You can edit /boot/loader.rc and comment the line "include /boot/beastie.4th"
>and "beastie-start"
>
> >
> > 3. I built a custom kernel and chose to incorporate 'hints' within the
> > kernel and that seems to work, but I noticed alot of modules still get
> > built for devices I didnt include or list (like scsi and sound)...how can I
> > effectively remove devices I dont have ?
>
>That's because modules are built together with the kernel not with the world.
>You can change this by adding the following to /etc/make.conf
>"NO_MODULES=    true"
>or or and/or
>"MODULES_WITH_WORLD=true"
>
> >
> > ..other than this (so far)..I am very pleased at the performance!
>
>Well then you seem to have very fast hardware. Regarding disk transfer and
>network speed there is plenty to do (see Greg Leheys latest measurements)
>
>-Harry

umm. This is not good news? - I have dual machines that have Pentium4 
3.06ghz and run IDE 7200 rpm drives...I have not seen any loss of 
performance via network -or- IDE transfers. Things seem to really rock....

Hmmmm.






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