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# Notes on kernel modules management in muLinux 
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Setup search a kernel modules in the dirs specified in /etc/modules.conf.

archive.tbz is a tarred-bziped archive of modules for 2.0.36 kernel

Add (if You want) the parameters of module X in the file X.param

Warning: check the size of your BOOT partition!

Euristic Searching & Caching:
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When you issue a:	"setup -m y/x"
for example:
			setup -m misc/lp

Searching for "x" module:

	for each DIR  listed in /etc/modules.conf
		if exists DIR/y/x.o
			return DIR/y/x.o
		else  unpack DIR/archive.tbz in /tmp/modules
			return /tmp/module/y/x.o
	done	

The next time you need of this module (and companion), loading will be
more fast, because /etc/modules.conf specify /tmp/modules as top directory.

Setup search module's parameters file (x.param) either in DIR/ or 
in /startup/modules. 	


pack & repack
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	There is two script: "unpack" and "repack" in any directory
	listed in /etc/modules.conf. You can use this scripts for 
	unpack and repack archive.tbz in those dir. 

	This hack is useful only for UMSDOS installation and
	for Linux installer: running "pack" and "repack"
	in a RAM-muLinux can crash the base floppy.
	
