On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 00:21, deedee wrote: > Lee Wiggers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 01:41:41 +0000 > >No, if install means tuck it in on the hd and use it every day. > >Hmmm, guess I wasn't asking the right question. > > > >Why does it just come up with a working kde desktop every time, > >then? Cranky laptop to 99.00 piece of junk. > > <snip> > > > >I'm not being obtuse (I don't think.). I'm waiting for the lightbulb > >to light. > > I was just reading an article on O'Reilly (http://linux.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/4323) > that went into a lot of detail about Knoppix. However, on the forum where I read the > article -- I don't remember which unfortunately (sorry about that) -- the comments > at the bottom by other readers indicated that the article was wrong about Knoppix > using kudzu for hardware detection. > > According to those folks, Klaus Knopper created his own software for hardware > detection basing it on the Debian distribution, and it is apparently superior to > everything else out there. > > deedee > -- This weekend I found a case where Knoppix failed and MDK succeeded! I've got a test machine with set up with CD on IDE 0 primary, CDRW on IDE 1 primary and the four hard drives on a Promise card so they become hde through hdh. Knoppix boots and detects the hard drives but sits a long time trying to find a driver and finally gives up. You can't mount a hard drive partition. Mandrake 9.2 detects and installs on these drives just fine. Klaus probably doesn't have a Promise TX133 card; maybe they're not marketed in Europe.
I do wish MDK would make it easier to configure for dial-up internet access when a local network also exists -- drakconnect seems almost willfully stupid in this case, and modifying /etc/sysconfig... isn't easy for new users. Knoppix handles this transparently. I guess those of us in rural or poor inner city areas where broadband is uneconomic for the providers to provision (I'm both, part-time) are a declining minority. I guess with all the permutations of hardware and environment out there it's a miracle that anything works at all. One of the benefits of Stalinism: the 1938 model tractor may be an inefficient and smokey monster, but everyone knows where to kick it when it refuses to start; nobody can keep all the spares needed to service 27 incompatible free enterprise models. -- N. B. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> University of New Orleans, Dept of Physics
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