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Re: required DEVs...



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> On Sun, 22 Sep 1996, Ze'ev Maor wrote:
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> > 
> > What are the REALLY essential devices I should have on a root fs floppy
> > (assuming I want to save space), i.e. fd0,hda, a couple of ttys etc...
> > (I'll need support for plip as well)...
> 
> ha! save space :-)))
> 
> devices plug into the kernel, they don't take up space...
> 

That is not entirely correct.  At least not on other Unix systems.
Only the device drivers you define in the kernel are being linked into it,
and therefore the less devices you define, the less disk space will your
kernel take.

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