Re: Discovering what devices are already detected by kernel
Since I am only involved in the potato boot-floppies, and not in the
next generation woody ones, I will restrict myself to commenting on
how we can improve this situation for potato.
As far as changes the dbootstrap, the only think I can think of that
is feasible is a little status report, whereby dbootstrap simply
offers a wide dialog box which contains info about what has already
been detected -- i.e., network device, disks...
I've also been thinking about how it might not be too hard to improve
the documentation without adding to much maintenance nightmare by
actually extracting the /boot/config-* file and then taking the
defines which are turned on for that kernel, and somehow (use of
kernel-source Configure.help?) turning that into a readable list of
devices supported by the different kernels. This seems especially
helpful on i386 where there are so many flavors.
Thoughts? Is it doable? Will it solve your problem? Does any RTM?
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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