s. keeling wrote:
Incoming from Derek Broughton:Curt Howland wrote:I recommend you try Knoppix to see what it says about your harddrive. It has excellent hardware detection, and will install on almost anything x86 compatible.Worth a try - but having just tried morphix (which I understand is derived from knoppix) on an Inspiron 2500, I wouldn't count on it finding all your hardware. Darn thing dies doing scsi detection, on a system without scsi. It seems to do the scsi detection way too early...Isn't there a scsi=no boot parameter for getting around that?
Probably. But I operate on a very simple principle. If it isn't easier than Debian, I can't be bothered :-)
I really thought these Live CDs were supposed to be great at recognizing hardware. Having just gone through three debian installs, trying to network-install Sarge starting from floppies sucks, but a network install from the Sarge 100MB .iso image was a breeze. The only thing it's got wrong that I can see is that it doesn't quite have my PCMCIA card configured correctly, and I have to 'ifdown eth0; ifup eth0' (dmesg mentions changing i82365 to yenta (or yenta_socket) and it's happening before PCMCIA is init'ed which is pretty simple to fix).
derek