Re: Ready-made initrd setup?
Raghavendra Bhat <ragu@vsnl.com> writes:
> Kai posts :
>
>>> I hear good stuff about the hw detection facilities in Knoppix,
>>> could they be pilfered for my purpose?
>
> The hw detection is done by kudzu, GPLed stuff.
Ah, and there are even Debian packages for this! Cool.
> They can be pilfered and you can re-master your own Knoppix CD. It is
> very easy. The following links will be of help,
>
> http://www.knoppix.net/
> http://home.bellsouth.net/p/s/community.dll?ep=87&subpageid=46907&ck=
Well, I don't want to remaster a Knoppix CD. Instead, I want to
change our existing Debian installation to auto-grok hardware, so
that, for example, the same kernel runs on all of them.
But it seems that kudzu can find a CD rom drive and add the correct
fstab entry and /cdrom symlink. That's nice. It also appears to be
able to help me configure the X server. But that seems to be a
little more difficult so I'm going to have to work on that one.
Currently, we have a lot of scripts in /etc/modutils that run `lspci
-v' and do different things depending on its output. For example,
various audio cards are recognized. I think that kudzu can do this
job.
It is, however, not extensively documented so I'm going to have to
meditate about it.
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