Bug#60887: pcmcia modules and other things

[Robert Browne <rbrowne@alphalink.com.au>]

Adam Di Carlo scribbled out these words:
> Robert Browne <rbrowne@alphalink.com.au> writes:
> 
> > Randolph Chung scribbled out these words:
> > > > I requested not to install any modules. When i exited module screen,
> > > > it still copied all the modules from drivers.tgz
> > > 
> > > not a bug -- modules are always copied onto your harddisk.
> > 
> > Fair enough, but one of the last steps should delete the modules from
> > /lib/modules/2.2.x/. 
> 
> Why should it do that?

When i request not to install any modules, i would expect no modules
to be installed.

> > > > At the screen after
> > > > where do you want to install from, it displayed the error message:
> > > > LOOP_SET_FD bad file descripter.
> > > 
> > > which source did you choose?
> > 
> > harddisk, /dev/hdb1 ext2. this had the 2 *.tgz and 2 *.bin files.
> > Note: used rescue and root floppies to start the install and the rescue
> > disk had a new kernel I compiled.
> 
> Huh.  Thanks.  Did it succeed despite this error message?

Yes.


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