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Re: [SLE] hardware autodetection....
  • From: James Oakley <joakley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:06:46 -0400
  • Message-id: <E16b4iH-0008RF-00@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On February 13, 2002 02:22 pm, Brian Marr wrote:
> > Redhat does have an automatic detection script for hardware, any
> > possibility of having something like this in SuSE? Lets say I change my
> > graphics card, would it be possible for sax2 to appear?
>
> Sounds like Windows. Wizards -I hate them. We don't want to emulate
> Redmond.

Kudzu is severely brain-damaged.

What's really fun is when you have a headless server and it won't come up
because it's asking questions on the console. Then you have to find a KVM and
hook it up before your server will actually run.

I like autodetection, but only at my request. Maybe an email to root upon
detection would be a better idea.

- --
James Oakley
Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd.
joakley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.solutioninc.com
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