Re: modutils

From: Andrew Haninger
Date: Fri Mar 03 2006 - 01:29:41 EST


Tim: Hope you don't mind me Cc'ing the list. I'd rather keep our
discussion there.

On 3/3/06, tim tim <tictactoe.tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I'm not sure what you mean. At least one system will need a compiler
> then.. exactly when i am telling fully installed system.. in the
> sense fully installed os .. ie there is an oprion of everything in
> RedHat.. hope u saw thar or at least i my selfs selecting all the
> packages they are showing....
I'm having trouble making sense of this sentence. You will not need to
install EVERYTHING from Redhat just to compile a kernel, you will at
least need the developer's tools. If you install those tools on one
system, you can configure and build a kernel there for another system
and then move the built kernel and it's associated modules to another
system that is not "fully installed".

> after installing modutils i can't understand what this is used for..
> even i went through tldp man pages.. they just covered a little.. but
> surely nor for a novice kernel installer...
modutils is used for handling kernel modules (drivers that can be
installed and removed fomr a running kernel) in the Linux kernel
version 2.4. The Linux kernel version 2.6 uses module-init-tools.

-Andy
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