On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 16:52, Ken Teh wrote:
> I've begun ordering machines without floppies.  It's not a killer, but
> there is an annoying warning during boot when the kernel tries to insmod
> floppy.o.  I assume floppy.o is compiled as a module which means it should
> be possible to tell the kernel not to try to insmod the floppy driver.
> How do you do this?
>
> Ken

In /etc/modules.conf add the line

   alias floppy off

Works for me.

John Franks