On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 06:40:43PM -0400, George Czerw wrote: > However, the point is that if Mandrake is trying to build & market a > worldclass product, then it should also have a worldclass installation > routine that recognizes the appropriate peripheral devices during the > installation routine and installs the correct drivers at that time. A > newbie would have one heck of a problem figuring out how to handle that. > Besides, if Mandrake wants to draw users away from M$, it better get the > installation routine as perfect as possible, and not tell the user to do > something post-install.
blah blah blah... isapnp isn't probed at install time because some users machines will just flat out crash if you do this. There's no way to determine if it's safe or not. So it's better to run an install and tell the few people who are still using ISA cards to run a command to probe for it than have the installer crash for a bunch of people who probably don't even have ISA on their machine. So doing what you ask would probably make for a less "world class installer" -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org Never take no as an answer from someone who isn't authorized to say yes.
