On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 07:31:46PM -0800, James Sparenberg wrote:
> Thomas as to why it takes to long now. There has been a lot of new
> hardware added since the 7.3 days and MDK has compiled every single one
> of those modules in.
Ah. I was afraid someone would say that... :-} Well, at least I know
now that it's normal behaviour.
> You can do one of two things. go into sysinit and comment out where it
> does depmod. (this can be dangerous if hardware changes and you don't
> do depmod -a on your own first.)
>
> Second option which has worked on my laptop is to edit /etc/rc.sysinit
> and do this.
> find the section that looks like this.
[...]
Veeerry cool, thanks for sharing that. I'll check that one out as soon
as possible. But if I understand you correctly, there should also be a
third option, which is building a custom kernel with as many
unnecessary support removed as possible, right? I'll have to recompile
anyway, as I want support for the PCMCIA floppy (to the best of my
knowledge, a patch is the only way to solve this), so I might just try
that as an alternative. Hm ,might even have one advantage: In case I
do add some new hardware (i.e. PCMCIA card), I could always boot into
the standard kernel.
Cheerio,
Thomas
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