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SubjectRe: RedHat 9 and 2.5.x support
On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, John Jasen wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, John Bradford wrote:
>
> > If you don't use modules at all, and simply compile everything in, you
> > can ignore the modutils issue completely. Other than that, you should
> > have no problems.
>
> Isn't modules-init backward compatible, or did I read wrong somewhere?

It can be installed such that it calls the old versions, renamed to
xxx-old, if used from a 2.4 system. However, I don't think Redhat did that
type install for 9.0, so it will probably not work after an upgrade.

The last I looked modprobe.conf was a seriously deficient subset of
modules.conf, but I haven't d/l the latest version, so some of the
omissions may have been addressed. The major feature missing is (or was)
the lack of probe capability (and probeall). You can run a dual system,
but you do have to work at it a little bit.

--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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