Clamav out of date

[Albert Charron]

Harold Hartley wrote:

  

> I'm glad you pointed this out to me as I have a dell latitude d800 that 
> came with windows XP and can't stand the screw ups when I try doing 
> stuff on it. I want to put linux on it, but will it work fine when I 
> need to swap my dvd/cd combo with a hard drive without having to restart 
> the computer to read it... Has linux developed enough to do this.
> I've seen major improvements since I've started in 1997 with linux.
>   
Currently running Feisty Fawn on my Dell C600 laptop. Just out of 
curiosity, I tried to remove my cd-rom drive (which is also hot 
swappable under Windows), but the machine almost froze, with a lot of 
error related to IDE in /var/log/message. Even if I replaced the drive, 
I had to reboot the machine to stop the errors... So I might thing that 
the hot swappable feature of the drive won't be usefull on your laptop 
either :(

Maybe someone more skilled with hotswappable hardware will have another 
answer, and I'd like to know how to make it work (if it's possible)... 
Not that I have some usage of the hotswappable drive for now, but maybe 
someday I'll use a second battery or a second harddrive too :)

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