Ian Pascoe wrote: > Folks > > Some advice please > > For various reasons I'm going to do a fresh install of Hearty once the next > LTS release is published. As I didn't do the install on the desktop > originally, I need a little guidance. > > I have various periphials that get attached / detached , as you do, and was > trying to figure out whether the best way was to have them all connected > during the installation process so that any necessary drivers / packages are > got then, or do the fresh install with the bear minimum attached, and add > the necessary bits and pieces as required? > > By periphials I include such things as printers / USB Drives / sticks, PDA, > etc etc > > Cheers > > Ian >
You can add printers afterwards, chances are if you have something like a HP or Epson printer then the drivers will be built into the OS. If it's USB then it should also be detected and configured for you. You might also want any USB hard drives that you normally have plugged in attached as you should be able to specify the mount point for them at installation (just be careful not to format them), but again it's not a major task to add them afterwards. As far as the PDA is concerned, not sure on that. I have a Palm V with a serial cradle and I had to manually specify that I had it attached to get it to work. I think you'll find that most if not all of your hardware will have drivers built in if you're lucky (might be an issue with some wireless devices). From experience though, most things when plugged in are detected, the driver loads and it works first time (and within a couple of seconds which is quicker in Ubuntu than it is in Windows for me!). Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
