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Re: Cheap PC / unknown components. ALDI/Medion MD 8080 XL anyone?



on Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 09:21:02AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom (hvw59601@care2.com) wrote:
> Karsten M. Self wrote:

> >More significantly:  get a Knoppix disk.  Use it to identify the HW on
> >the system.  The 'lshw' command is useful, as is my own system-info
> >script:
> >
> >    http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/LinuxSystemInfoScript
> 
> 
> lspci in my Sarge sys is not in /sbin but in /usr/bin.
> Wouldn't it be better to find out where those commands are rather than 
> using hardcoded?

Heh.  I've fixed that a couple of times.  Likely you're right.

> But did you look at Klaus Knopper's scripts? Work rather nicely... I
> like his boot option "knoppix 2". You need no code to get that to
> work!  I asked him how it worked and all I got back was "man init"...
> ;-)

kudzu, mostly, from what I understand.


Peace.

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