On 04-Oct-2000 Joel Dinel wrote: > What precautions / tips would you guys (and girls) give to me if I want to > recompile 2.2.17 and cut down a lot of stuff ? Last time I did so, I backed > up the modules and system-map (or something like that). > as long as you leave a copy of the kernel and the /lib/modules/ stuff somewhere safe, play all you want. Just NEVER make the hard drive controller for your hardware a module.