With Redhat 7.2, you are starting with a 2.4 series of kernel. I may be wrong, but kudzu was part of RedHat 6.2 as well, I remember using it for quite some time. kudzu is not only available at boot, or needed to be run as a service, you can manually run it as well. To take kudzu and anything out of your boot, run setup from the command line, when logged in as root. Setup will allow you to fine tune your boot to a certain point by giving you the ability of saying what you want to start automatically on boot. Setup is a nice utility that works well with speakup. Redhat 7.2 will allow you to choose the file structure that you want to use for your hard drive. It includes ext3, mentioned in Kirk's note, as well as reiser fs. However, this is not a Redhat specific thing, it is a kernel driven thing. So if you don't have the support built into the kernel, you will not be able to use them. -----Original Message----- From: Kirk Wood [mailto:cpt.kirk@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: 2002 January 30 5:59 AM To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: RH 6.2 Versus RH 7.2 > Well, I've noticed that slow down in spead myself. One way to help spead > things up is to use the ext3 fs which works much better than ext2. > One major difference between 6.2 and 7.2 is that 7.2 comes with the kudzu > pnp hardware maniger. Kudzu tracks new and removed hardware, and attempts to > configure it for you. Oh please tell me that this is not a representation of what is in store for the linux comunity. Switching to an more effecient file system for poor OS performance sounds like a m$ thing. As for Kudzu, from what I have seen it is more of a boot thing. You can certainly turn it off and I would do so if you aren't adding and subtracting hardware. I mean why run it? I suppose so that you could avoid a reboot after 65 days of adding no new hardware and deciding you wanted something. Oh wait, you had to shut it down to connect it anyway. Or if not, you could always restart the service midstream anyway. ======= Kirk Wood Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net Nowlan's Theory: He who hesitates is not only lost, but several miles from the next freeway exit. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
