Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, Steve Youngs wrote:
> > Richard Adams wrote in another thread:
> >
> > I wrote in another thread:
> > >> Go all out and put _everything_ you can as modules :)
> >
> > > Thats the best piossable advice, BUT do not put things like ext2
> > > filesystem, harddisk drivers in as modules UNLESS you know what you
> > > are doing otherwise your kernel WILL not boot, you need to change the
> > > way kmod and lilo work to have things like that as modules.
> >
> > That's very interesting Richard. Suppose you have the following type
> > of setup...
> >
> > IDE hard drives
> > Linux on an ext2 filesystem
> >
> > How would you go about setting both of those as modules and still get
> > your computer to boot properly? What would you have to change in lilo
> > and kmod?
>
> Well to be honest, i would'nt do it. it can be done but if one follows
> advice given in most distribution INSTALL and README's one would
> partition ones drive as follows.
After reading what you wrote, I don't think I would want to do it
either. :-) But thanks for the info, I was just curious.
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