On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 12:00:46PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [You seem to be breaking attributions - who said this?]
> > Why can't the installer ask what the CPU is and if it's an x86 then use > > kudzu and if it isn't don't? Wouldn't that work on all platforms? Or > > can't an x86 CPU be reliably detected? > > It might work. It would clearly work; there's a separate installer build for every architecture! > But it blows off the ideology of consistency. I disagree; I think it's fine for the i386 installer to behave a little differently, particularly in inherently architecture-specific things like hardware detection. I think the debian-installer people think so too and will be using discover for automatic hardware detection at least on i386. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
