On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 18:22, Greg Meyer wrote: > Is there any reason why I should not disable the depmod section of the > initscript. I have a 300MHz PII notebook that works great as a mobile word > porcessor but takes forever to boot. I've already turned off harddrake and > tried bootig with the depmod disabled and I saw no ill effects, I just want > to be sure there isn't something more I should no about. BTW, the change > reduced boot time by about 90 seconds.
Greg, Todd once mentioned in here that the only hassle would be if any of your hardware and the corresponding modules it needs where to change. Then you might not be able to boot unless you either turn it back on or run depmod -a by manually before rebooting/shutting down. Other wise he saw no problem. James
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