On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Paul J. Lucas wrote: > On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Eric Cooper wrote: > > > If you compile in "enough" drivers, instead of making them modules, > > you won't need an initrd. "Enough" means at least the driver for your > > hard disk, the filesystem for your root partition, and maybe your > > keyboard, mouse, and video. > > Why wouldn't you compile-in filesystem and video support? I > mean, the system has to use them the entire time it's up. So > why would anybody make them module? > > - Paul > > >
Debian, like any other distro, tries to support a large number of machines with a single kernel. For that, it makes sense to build everything as modules. Ken -- das eine Mal als Trag�die, das andere Mal als Farce
