[NBLUG/talk] Gentoo

[William Tracy]

> > I'm compiling gentoo for the first time and now I have a question:
> > On this laptop (Inspiron 6000) I followed a good-looking script for
> > kernel.config, with only a few items taking space in the kernel itself.
> > That left me with 290 modules. ouch. The install instructions tell me to
> > copy the modules I found into /etc/modules.autoload.d/(KERNEL_NAME).

Well, AFAIK having extra modules around doesn't cause any harm other
than taking up a little extra disc space, since they aren't loaded if
they're not needed.

BTW, what is this script that you're using?

William