Re: distro for novices
On Tuesday 14 December 2004 12:15 pm, Scarletdown wrote:
> Pedro M (Morphix User) wrote:
> > Scarletdown escribió:
> >> The really great thing about Knoppix and its descendants is its
> >> portability due to the great hardware detection. In most cases,
> >> you can install one of these on one system, then transfer the
> >> drive to another system fairly seamlessly. That was how I got
> >> Damn Small working on my laptop, since DSL didn't recognize my
> >> parallel port CD-ROM drive initially.
> >
> > Is Debian so detection-capable ??.
> >
> > Regards.
>
> As per my previous post, Woody had problems with my motherboard,
> which uses the NForce chipset. I don't know what it's like nowadays.
>
> I just downloaded the Net install CD image for Sarge. I'll be trying
> it out on a couple old systems that I'm tinkering with. We will see
> how the hardware detection goes with it. I won't be putting it on my
> primary system though, since Mepis is working fine for the most part
> (a couple minor issues I need to research, but it's serving my needs
> for now.)
Hadrware detection is not magic, you either have the programs that can
detect and configure hardware or you don't, Woody does not have the
hardware apps that Sarge does, not saying it will work in your case,
but Sarge is much better in this regard.
--
Greg C. Madden
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