Hardware Detection
Brian Kelsay
bkelsay at comcast.net
Thu Mar 18 05:38:24 CST 2004
Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 17, 2004 10:55 am, Brian Kelsay wrote:
>
>>Only problem with installing something like the full blown Knoppix for me
>>is if I don't have a CDRW in a PC, I get all this extra software installed,
>>same w/ TV card and other devices.
>
> Yeah, same problem here. I can understand having things like mkisofs on a
> system without a burner, but not cdrecord. In SuSE, every time I run the
> package manager (part of YaST), I have to lock out ISDN adapters, TV tuners,
> Nokia Cell Phones, Palm Pilots, and a bunch of other stuff. They definitely
> need to work at not requiring that stuff just because you installed the
> calendar and address book, and at checking to see if the hardware is actually
> there before they install the software for it.
I despise all that Palm stuff loading when I have no Palm device.
>>The other problem is that, as far as I
>>know, once you install to disk, you lose the autodection of hardware. So
>>If you plan on putting a device in the PC, you should do so before install
>>to make your life easier.
> RedHat has Anaconda (I think) that does hardware detection. It can be run at
> every boot for a morphic configuration a la Win98 (BAD) or on demand
> (better), but it does not detect new hardware as thoroughly or as well as the
> installers currently do.
I think RH uses Kudzu. Knoppix also uses it, but it won't run at bootup
after install. I think RH 8&9 and Mandrake would do this.
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