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Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> writes: |
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> On Saturday 05 January 2008, reader@×××××××.com wrote: |
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>> > to de-junk a default config - even if you don't know what you do, |
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>> > is in realm of half an hour to an hour. If you read everything. |
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>> Do you have a de-junked .config that I can diff against the |
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>> default.. it would be a way to see what kinds of things get dropped. |
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> Drivers for stuff you don't need and you will likely never use. Like ham |
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> radio stuff, v4linux (first version), I20, on a notebook all the |
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> enterprise-grade connect-a-machine-to-storage-stuff like iSCSI and |
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> Infiniband, all of ISA and MCA and the pre-pci bus drivers, old disk |
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> types like mfm and on modern boards usually even IDE as well. |
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Thanks... but you hit on something there that can throw you. |
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scsi stuff. |
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I've never used a scsi hard drive in my life but not that long ago |
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linux users needed scsi support for many of the cdrom drives. I doubt |
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that is still the case but it might be. But my point is that even |
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when you think you know something isn't needed it might be in some |
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context you haven't thought of. |
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People in this thread speak of 2 and 3 boots and editing in between in |
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the same message where `5 minutes' is mentioned. That doesn't wash. |
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You're way past that time frame. But still not in the guiness book |
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realm I guess... hehe. |
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> Removing all these unused drivers is the single largest improvement in |
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> reducing kernel size. The general rule with drivers is that if you are |
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> familiar with YOUR hardware and you've never heard of something in the |
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> config then you don't have it and don't need it :-) |
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Just to know more on this... Is there really any reason to worry about |
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kernel size... I mean in most cases with a standard desktop install? |
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I noticed a massive difference in drivers and modules installed |
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between a machine running kde and X and a hand roled kernel I |
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configured on nox system with just basic install. In fact that is |
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what led to my post here. But the actual kernel wasn't all that |
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different in size. |
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> Like I said in an earlier mail, |
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Do you mean on this thread? If so I must have some trouble with my |
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newsreader threading or something... I don't see it here. |
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> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .it's not an easy process. It's only easy |
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> if you know most of it already - like Volker. I'd guess he has long |
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> since forgotten what it took to learn everything he knows, so of |
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> course "It's obvious!"... |
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Here here. |
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... And thanks for the basic advice and comments. |
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