owl-users - Re: modules on the CD - yet another question

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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 08:53:28 +0100
From: m.siennicki@...os.pl
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: modules on the CD - yet another question

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 01:13:53AM +0300, Solar Designer wrote:
> There's really no room to add many more drivers with the current
> approach.  Well, maybe if we switch to using 2.88 MB "floppies", but
> that would kill support for systems which can't boot off a CD and
> actually require one to produce a boot floppy.

   Then maybe there is enough room to add just BusLogic support
(for VMware)?

And just one more off-topic question (I'm interested what others
think about it):
Isn't a kernel with modules support disabled more secure then
a kernel with the support enabled? 

Marcin