On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 02:14, T. Ribbrock wrote: > 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?
definitely an option especially on older boxes and laptops. > 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. Reminds me.. I really need to get my old Libretto back up and running. I've got a Libretto 30 (never sold in the US) from Korea. AMD 486DX 100mhz. James > > Cheerio, > > Thomas
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