HOWTO Remove hardware modules from being loaded during boot???

[Jean-Rene Cormier]

On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 12:09, Anthony Joseph Seward wrote:
> But then your problem will reappear every time you upgrade your kernel.
> It is much better to add 'install floppy /bin/true'
> to /etc/modprobe.conf

What does 'install floppy /bin/true' do exactly? In FC1 I have 'alias
floppy off' in my modules.conf, does that do the same thing?

Jean-Rene Cormier

> On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 16:58 +0200, kim allamandola wrote:
> 
> > hi
> > You can simply manually delete the floppy.ko file.
> > I have this identic problem on Dell Inspiron 8500 and
> > now works ok
> >  
> > --
> > -=[kim]=-
> > 
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> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Anthony Joseph Seward <anthony.seward at ieee.org>
>