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| Thread ID: 48076 | 2004-08-13 11:22:00 | Hardware profiles in Linux | willie_M (5608) | Press F1 |
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| 261187 | 2004-08-13 11:22:00 | I remember seeing hardware profiles in windows. I guessed that they were a profile you could set to use different hardware such as if you had a removable drive with an OS on it used on two computers. However I just had a look and it doesn't look like thats what it does. I am doing an OS paper at uni, and we have been given removable hard drives to install OS's on so we can use a computer in an unrestricted environment. However I would like to use Mandrake 10 (one of the OS's we use) on my home computer as well as at school... The school computers are the run of the mill celeries or p4 processors with 256mb of ram and (i take it) intel mobo's with intel integrated graphics... My system is an XP2600, 512mb ram, and a geforce 4 mx440. Is there any way I can make hardware profiles that I can select for the computer I'm about to use on mandrake 10. Cheers willie_M |
willie_M (5608) | ||
| 261188 | 2004-08-13 16:51:00 | Im not sure about Mandrake, but I know that Redhat / Fedora has (or had last time I checked) kudzu which auto-detects what hardware you're running it on - no profiles neccesary AFAIK :-) Just be careful with X config, try and use vesa drivers! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 261189 | 2004-08-14 02:45:00 | Just about any Linux with a reasonably standard installation will run happily on any "reasonably" compatible hardware . Of course a system installed on a Pentium4 with 1 GB ram might not run when plugged into a 386SX16 with 6Mb ram . The first problem you might strike is if your home computer won't easily allow you to boot from the removable disk . That's easily fixed: make a boot floppy . (If you haven't got a floppy drive on the home computer that's a minor problem --- make a boot CD from the boot floppy :D) . Almost all hardware is detected as needed, and the appropriate driver modules are loaded automatically . This applies to the distribution kernels --- but your own compiled kernel with support for hardware compiled in will probably work if the exact hardware isn't there (as long as you have the modules for the actual hardware) . This is something to beware of --- the source code for the "thirdparty" tree in the /lib/modules is not included in the normal kernel source . And it can be "interesting" getting such things compiled on their own . :-) CD drives might be on different /dev/devices . . . just make appropriate entries in /etc/fstab to suit (if kudzu doesn't do it for you) . (a /mnt/homeCD mount point doesn't do any harm when you're not at home, and the default /mnt/cdrom won't hurt if its actual device is some miles away . Even harddosk partitions (on other drives) which are automounted at boot time will just give an error message when they are not found . If your slocate . cron doesn't exclude any foreign filesystems (like Windows) results from locate might be misleading . ;-) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 261190 | 2004-08-14 04:34:00 | saweet! so i dont have to do anything.... except repair my grub loader (win2k overwrote it as it does) and add the drake to it. | willie_M (5608) | ||
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