You should note that an increasing amount of hardware is *always* detected and configured each boot-up (or whenever the kernel detects it). For example, USB devices need to be configured and made available when they are plugged in, so the same mechanism is used for configuring them at boot time. This makes sure that they work the same way whether they are connected when Fedora starts up, or if they are plugged in later. So for this hardware, you probably won't have config files. I understand that kudzu does less than it used to, as more hardware is moved to udev/HAL. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7745 James. --> them at boot time. This makes sure that they work the same way whether they are connected when Fedora starts up, or if they are plugged in later. So for this hardware, you probably won't have config files. I understand that kudzu does less than it used to, as more hardware is moved to udev/HAL. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7745 James.
Thanks James. I was looking to toy around with speeding up the boot process a bit by removing needless steps such as checking for hardware changes at bootup. Regards thumb drive, I have one that is partitioned in two and FC5 tries to mount the physical device which fails, telling me I need to be root. Of course what needs to be mounted is the individual partition, not the device. I simply added myself in the sudo file to allow my regular username to mount & umount. I simply cancel the error and then mount it from bash. Thanks, Jacques
