On 4/15/05, Alexander Larsson <alexl(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 00:37 -0600, Tom Lisjac wrote:
>
> One essential component for a live CD is automatic hardware
> configuration. Has anyone developed a comprehensive package to handle
> this?
>
> For EpikBuilder, I adapted Klaus Knopper's scripts
For the stateless linux livecd i just used kudzu (kudzu -q I think). I
see no reason why the live-cd hardware detection should be any different
from the automatic detection of another (non-cd) fedora core
installation.
I see two different requirements here with error free autodetection
being much more critical for the bootable CD. If a hard disk install
doesn't pick something up correctly, it can be interactively fixed and
life goes on. With a failed CD boot, the user is out of business on
that machine.
If the current Knoppix autodetection works a lot better on a wider
variety of hardware, then migrating the improvements into the Fedora
implementation should be considered... otherwise we'll be building a
nice new system that doesn't work as well as the currently available
Knoppix derivatives.
The question is: is Knoppix actually better... and if so, by how much?
Has anyone had a chance to actually do some comparisons on variety of
hardware?
-Tom