On 4/15/05, Alexander Larsson alexl@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