Bruce Perens writes: [snip] > It's now possible to build a kernel with little more than the ramdisk > and console drivers and load everything else including the driver for > the root disk from a module (see the initrd documentation). That means > that the user can put together an efficient kernel without > recompiling. I wanted to have this for 1.2, but it'll have to wait for > 1.3 . Not having to recompile the kernel is a big ease-of-use issue. [snip]
I agree with this, however, there are times when one _must_ have a driver compiled within the kernel. Point in case, I want to put together a toolbox based on Debian and I want to use UMSDOS as my basic FS. Unless you have an alternative, I believe that in order to boot up into Debian on a UMSDOS FS, you must have UMSDOS embedded within the kernel. -- -= Sent by Debian Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
