fixed hardware profile

[gkgkgk]

once we install knoppix on hard disk then everytime it boots up then why is there a detection of all hardware everytime.
cant it be told that hey i dont change my hardware often ( atleast mine been fixed for last two year)
wont that speed up boot up time.

or
cant it be that once u know what file on linux relates to what hardware of ur comp then u could delete rest of useless hardware detection

[OErjan]

if you install Debian (or any other distribution intended for hdd install) and know linux, you can indeed remove unwanted hardware detection. you can even compile your own kernel and only d bare necessity with regard to hardwaresupport and such.
if you make a LFS or gentoo install you compile everything from source and can therefore customize to the extreme.

otoh I usually go a middle way compile a few known "heavy" things (kernel, glibc, xorg, firefox...) and rest I use as shipped, then to make things smoother I then edit a few files under the /etc directry.

[gkgkgk]

could u kindly give me some good sites informing in detail about recompiling n all wrote. thanks

[OErjan]

certainly, here are a few links to compiling stuff.

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

and then you have the handbooks and other documentation at
http://www.gentoo.org/

several interesting articles under
http://www.tldp.org/
especially
http://www.tldp.org/guides.html#lfs
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html and there you hve several interesting texts.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/From-Power...mpt-HOWTO.html
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Debian-Bin...WTO/index.html
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Firewall-HOWTO.html
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Glibc-Inst...WTO/index.html
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Glibc2-HOWTO.html
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO/index.html
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html
(you get the idea yet?)
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO-crash...WTO/index.html
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Pre-Instal...ist/index.html
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Post-Insta...ist/index.html
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Tips-HOWTO.html

well, as you see there is LOTS out there, make a google search and you usually find something, just be critical and try to make a backup of everything BEFORE you change anything (I usually copy entire /etc directory to a cdr when I have a working install)