On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 23:03:42 +0100 Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello > >Brian M. Godfrey (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > >>> This included hotplug (if you use kernel 2.6) >>> and discover. discover is also part of Woody (the stable version), >>> but not part of the base system. You can however install it later. >> >> So I could install the stable version (Woody) minimally, just to get >> it to boot up, then install discover...sounds easy enough. Then do I >> have to reboot to get the system properly setup, or does it do so >> while Linux is running? > >You do not need to reboot to run discover and load the drivers, but >probably you want to install another kernel instead of the one you used >for installation. To use it, you need to reboot. > >best regards > Andreas Janssen > Well, you NEED to reboot to FINISH the install. You can also install at this reboot the 'rescue' package apt-cache policy rescue rescue: Installed: 0.3-3 Candidate: 0.3-3 Version Table: *** 0.3-3 0 500 ftp://ftp.internatif.org ./ Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status There you'll find all info about your machine. /var/state/rescue /var/state/rescue/cpuinfo /var/state/rescue/df /var/state/rescue/dma /var/state/rescue/dmesg /var/state/rescue/dump_hdb7 /var/state/rescue/fdisk /var/state/rescue/fstab /var/state/rescue/host.conf /var/state/rescue/ifconfig /var/state/rescue/interrupts /var/state/rescue/ioports /var/state/rescue/lilo.conf /var/state/rescue/lsmod /var/state/rescue/modules /var/state/rescue/mount /var/state/rescue/networks /var/state/rescue/partitions /var/state/rescue/pci /var/state/rescue/rescue.ps /var/state/rescue/resolv.conf /var/state/rescue/route /var/state/rescue/scsi /var/www/pdbv/package/rescue_0.3-3.html mess-mate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]