On Sun, 08 Dec 2002, 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) IIRC, the Corel Linux installer did something like this. Since they sold the rights to Xandros, I assume the Xandros installer does the same thing. Damian -- Damian Gryski | "There is a crack, a crack in everything. dgryski@uwaterloo.ca | That's how the light gets in." gnu / geek / juggler / coder / compsci / crypto / security
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