On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 15:25, John Lines wrote: > Reading the thread on installation from Windows - one thing which might help > new Linux users would be a program which they ran from Windows before they > started, which would record all the things Windows knows about their system > which will be required by a Linux installation. > > This could include information on the hardware, such as graphics cards, and > some things related to the user, such as language settings and time zones. > > These could be written to a floppy and used to supply the information which > Debian Installer will need (a bit like a RedHat Kickstart floppy) I doubt there's anything sensible windows knows that wouldn't be available with lspci and other things in /proc. Hmmm, ok, on 2nd thought there's modems, printers, and old ISA cards. Anything else? cheers -- vbi -- this email is protected by a digital signature: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg NOTE: keyserver bugs! get my key here: https://fortytwo.ch/gpg/92082481
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