I have a little project going where I have slimmed down Slackware to
just below 20MB (on disk) to go onto a very specific laptop. A lot of
this has been done by linking to a full busybox and removing obviously
un-needed drivers.

Being quite new to Linux I have gotten it as far down as I can without
reading up on every single driver that comes with slackware.

I now need a way of identifying every component that is loaded,
linked or required so that I can start removing any drivers or modules
that are never used.

Are there any standalone consol apps that will create a text file
listing everything loaded or running?

Basically I'm trying to retrofit a very small slackware to copy onto a
fat drive in as few floppies as possible that has disk access (inc
USB) and network services. I know there are already some slim linuxes
but they often won't work well on this laptop without recompiling
etc... AND I'm having a lot of fun learning this way round...

Any ideas for an app that will detect loaded modules, drivers, etc
would be appreciated.

Pete

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:05:43 GMT, Pete <nospam@nospam.f--> wrote:


Sorry - Should have said ZipSlack not SlackWare...



>I have a little project going where I have slimmed down Slackware to
>just below 20MB (on disk) to go onto a very specific laptop. A lot of
>this has been done by linking to a full busybox and removing obviously
>un-needed drivers.
>
>Being quite new to Linux I have gotten it as far down as I can without
>reading up on every single driver that comes with slackware.
>
>I now need a way of identifying every component that is loaded,
>linked or required so that I can start removing any drivers or modules
>that are never used.
>
>Are there any standalone consol apps that will create a text file
>listing everything loaded or running?
>
>Basically I'm trying to retrofit a very small slackware to copy onto a
>fat drive in as few floppies as possible that has disk access (inc
>USB) and network services. I know there are already some slim linuxes
>but they often won't work well on this laptop without recompiling
>etc... AND I'm having a lot of fun learning this way round...
>
>Any ideas for an app that will detect loaded modules, drivers, etc
>would be appreciated.
>
>Pete

> Any ideas for an app that will detect loaded modules, drivers, etc
> would be appreciated.

lsmod

be carrefull, make a light kernel without knowlegment is sinonym of
"kernel panic" (no boot).

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> Any ideas for an app that will detect loaded modules, drivers, etc
> would be appreciated.

lsmod(8) will give you a list of the currently loaded modules, lsof(8)
will give you a list of all the currently "in use" files.

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Steve Youngs <steve@youngs.au.com> wrote:
> * nospam <Pete> writes:
> > Any ideas for an app that will detect loaded modules, drivers, etc
> > would be appreciated.
>
> lsmod(8) will give you a list of the currently loaded modules, lsof(8)
> will give you a list of all the currently "in use" files.

Maybe something like "find / -atime +10" would also be useful. That
command would show all files that hasn't been used in the last 10 days.
However, it assumes that the files are on a file system which has support
for the access time stamp on files. FAT is not capable of logging access
time. Also, sometimes even with a file system capable of logging access
time the mount option noatime is used and that makes those time stamps
unusable.

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Jérôme PRIOR <XXX@laposte.net> wrote:
: be carrefull, make a light kernel without knowlegment is sinonym of
: "kernel panic" (no boot).
:
carrefull -> careful
sinonym -> synonym

> Jérôme PRIOR <XXX@laposte.net> wrote:
> : be carrefull, make a light kernel without knowlegment is sinonym of
> : "kernel panic" (no boot).
> :
> carrefull -> careful
> sinonym -> synonym
>
>

oldstar -> old$chool

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:31:27 +0100, Jérôme PRIOR <XXX@laposte.net>
wrote:

>> Any ideas for an app that will detect loaded modules, drivers, etc
>> would be appreciated.
>
>lsmod
>
>be carrefull, make a light kernel without knowlegment is sinonym of
>"kernel panic" (no boot).

You know I have been so busy focusing on hacking bits out & rebooting
I tend to forget about the basic stuff already inbuilt.

I never really learnt to program so breaking stuff has often been the
quickest way I can get to where I want.

Making a light kernel will come latter. I made a heavy busybox with
every option I could so I could be sure that I had everything to
hand.. That'll need reducing later also.

On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:18:24 +0100, Jérôme PRIOR <XXX@laposte.net>
wrote:

>> Jérôme PRIOR <XXX@laposte.net> wrote:
>> : be carrefull, make a light kernel without knowlegment is sinonym of
>> : "kernel panic" (no boot).
>> :
>> carrefull -> careful
>> sinonym -> synonym
>>
>>
>
>oldstar -> old$chool

LOL. I smell bad too ;o)

Jérôme PRIOR <XXX@laposte.net> wrote:
: oldstar -> old$chool
:
Old computer precisely