On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 19:58:45 +0100 Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hotplug and its colleagues: I confess my lowest instincts get > mobilised when thinking on this stuff: I slows down the whole boot > process so much that sometimes I feel like being on a 2.2 kernel. > > So all I need to know: Can I run a 2.6 kernel without hal, udev and > hotplug being installed, or with these packages being disabled at boot > time at least? The only place I see hotplug mentioned in a 2.6 kernel image is that certain earlier versions _conflict_. Apt-get seems to agree, telling me it can uninstall hotplug without taking any other packages or kernel images with it. I would, however, double check that you have the right modules listed in the appropriate config file to get loaded at boot time. Otherwise you will have problems. As for hal and udev, neither is currently installed on my Athlon 2200 XP+ running a 2.6.9-2-k7 kernel image. That said though, udev does sound pretty useful and is something I've been meaning to learn more about and setup on my machine. So, yes, you can live without all three of those packages. But be careful in your transition away from them or you can screw your system. HTH, Jacob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
