On Apr 7, 2005 8:14 PM, Conor Wynne <weeboy at conorwynne.com> wrote:
>> Hmm, bit confused with this debian stuff, I look inside modules.conf,
> which tells me not to edit it, but rather to edit /etc/modutils instead.
> However, none of the files in the directory mention ide-generic!
>> Its a bit annoying I must say, need to rtfm.....
Well, any files you put in /etc/modutils get included into modules.conf
If you want to add lines to /etc/modules.conf, then create a new file
in /etc/modutils containing the lines you'd like added. Then run the
command
update-modules
and it will regenerate /etc/modules.conf, using the files from that
directory, including your addition. If nothing else, at least this
makes it easier to see what you've added and remove it later if you
want.
However I think that for the newer kernels (2.6.x) the place for
settings like this is in the /etc/modprobe.d directory (you'll have
module-init-tools installed at that stage), and there's no
intermediate generation step required.
I can sympathise with the difficulty of adapting to Debian. I use
Debian all the time, but I installed Fedora Core 3 recently (by
request) and found it kind of tricky to make my way around in it.
It's not that it's _so_ different, but it's certainly different enough
to slow you down.
Michael
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