On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 07:39:52 -0500 Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:21:58PM +0100, Joris Huizer wrote: > } Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > } >see my other note on this: why isn't (and I know NOTHING about the > } >installer so bear with me) knoppix type detection done by the installer? > } >There should be NOTHING that knoppix does that Debian can't do at install > } >time, excepting kernel modules that are to far up the chain still. IOW, > } >the installer should do a knoppix style detection and then test itself: > } >"Dear user, the installer has detected a reasonable setup for your GUI. We > } >will now switch to that GUI and if it works, you will be prompted to > } >continue the installation. If it doesn't work, the installer will revert > } >to this interface after XX seconds and will walk you through a reconfigure > } >fo the X window system." > } > } I think the knoppix installer uses some x86-specific tools that the > } debian crew does not really like -- those were taken from redhat I > } thought; note that the new debian installer is able to do a lot more > } autodetection on the X configuration than the old one (that is, the old > } one didn't try to do any it seemed) -- though in the end I did survive > } that (after needing to compile & use the nvidia driver to get X running, > } which was not the nicest part of the install for a newbie ;-)) > [...] > > The important part is x86-specific, not redhat. Knoppix is an x86 live > distro. Debian is fully supported on x86, PPC, PA-RISC, Sparc, MIPS (I > think), and others (I think DEC Alpha and IA64 are in there, but I'm too > lazy to check right now). It is gaining support for x86-64. The Knoppix > folks (and Redhat, for that matter) have put a lot of effort into > autodetection for x86, but without comparable facilities for all the other > supported hardware platforms the consequences of including it in the > installer would be to relegate those other platforms to second-class > citizenship. That simply isn't how Debian is run. yeah, good point. A > > --Greg > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
