Subject: NetBSD 1.5 Kernel Config
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Andrew Steven Ball <kb9ylw@cyberspace.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/29/2001 12:22:22
Hello Mark!

  MJW> Looks pretty good to me. :-)

Hurrah!

  MJW> ...IIRC you can drop COMPAT_14 now we are in
     > 1.5-release; I originally wrote this for one of the
     > 1.5 betas.  Is this right, anybody?

Sounds good.

  MJW> If you were to build with against -current, you'd
     > presumably want COMPAT_15 in there.

I'd probably use 1.5-release (I think)

  MJW> On the rare occasions I exchange files by floppy
     > disk, I use MSDOS fs; otherwise it probably isn't
     > needed.

Okay, I'll probably drop that then.

  MJW> Yep, sure; I deliberately wanted wscons on this one,
     > but pccons should work fine.  Are you intending to
     > mostly use it via the network?

What network? <grin>  How would I go about using pccons
instead of wscons?  I've had trouble with wscons on some
hardware, although not specifically on george.

  MJW> If you don't use it (manually), you may not need vnd
     > (block device loopback) - anybody know?

So I won't break anything by turning it off?

Regards,
  - Andy.