Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke@gwdg.de> writes:
Hi,
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Susanne Oberhauser wrote:
Eberhard Moenkeberg <emoenke@gwdg.de> writes:
We were not talking about beginners - the course was about changing hardware pieces.
Ok, it's not the plain vanilla beginner stuff, right.
But it's not that hard either, is it?
And if the board crashes and you move the disk to another board you have the very same problem.
You simply should not do that if you are not able to enter a command at the console.
Hmmm. When we had the first laptops and people started switching networks carrying their laptops around, (wireless, _scary_) our networking guys said, "Linux is a server operating system, you simply don't do that with unix", or, more bluntly: "How crazy can you be to switch networks of a running server?" We had long and hard discussions wether it was 'allowed' at all to disconnect a unix machine from it's network and connect it to another one. Only after we got at allowing this foolish thing to happen, we were able to think about how we can make the system robust in such circumstances. In the same vein, I don't see why a relative beginner should not replace hardware parts or move the hard disk to another machine, maybe even if he doesn't know the beauty of the shell yet. And much more importantly: finding a good solution for that brings us to a single image that automatically gives best results on many different types of hardware. A reliable hardware autoredetection and driver configuration will greatly simplify laptop, workstation and even server deployment: It will also accelerate it, because then you can just throw an image to the disk, with rpm database and all, and it will just tune itself to the specific hardware at boot. I really don't see what would be bad about that? Difficult, maybe ;), but certainly A Good Thing. ? S. -- Susanne Oberhauser +49-911-74053-574 SUSE -- a Novell Business OPS Engineering Maxfeldstraße 5 Processes and Infrastructure Nürnberg SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org