"John L. Fjellstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > it doesn't matter if you have it compiled/installed. modprobe will > automagically load it into memory when you need it. Not sure why > the installation said you could damage(?)/mess up the installation > if you installed a module for a hardware device you don't have.
In very few and bad cases this is possible. Imagine you install a SCSI driver and somehow it thinks there really is a SCSI device and you go on and you try to install on that not really existing SCSI device. BOOM. In most cases there are no problems. > I don't know, still getting used to it. What I really liked from > RedHat is that they moved all the startup files into a subdirectory > of /etc/rc.d. Debian (at least 2.1) is using the Solaris style, > i.e. /etc/rc?.d What's the problem? All scripts goes in /etc/init.d and in /etc/rc?.d are Symlinks. This way it's also done by RedHat, but they do it in /etc/rc.d/init.d and /etc/rc.d/rc?.d (IIRC). -- Until the next mail..., Stefan.
