Dave Price, 2002-Jun-06 14:15 -0600: > On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 01:02:18PM -0700, Jeff wrote: > </snip>I > > recently booted a brand spanking new Toshiba Satellite 5105-S607 that > > is "legacy free", which means the keyboard and mouse-pad are on the > > USB bus, using the Knoppix CD which is based on the 2.4.18 kernel and > > loads KDE. It loaded fine, but got the modelines wrong so X was > > unusable. But, the keyboard worked fine and I could see something > > moving around amoung the squiggly lines on the botched X session when > > I scratched the mouse-pad. It found the keyboard fine and ran a nice > > framebuffer console in color at 1024x768 and I believe I saw the SCSI > > modules loaded for the CD-RW drive. > > I have had great fun and success throwing the knoppix cd rom at various > hardware setups. > > My question: Is there a useful mechanism / method to use the results of > knoppix' probing to install and configure a (permanaent) debian system > on the probed hardware? > > aloha, > dave
Other than writing down all the modules and configs, I don't know of any. This is pretty much what I do. I use the DemoLinux CD for the sometimes too. jc -- Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
