From: Risto Kankkunen (kankkune@klaava.Helsinki.FI)
Date: 03/27/93 

From: kankkune@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Risto Kankkunen)
Subject: Re: The best way to "support Linux"!
Date: 27 Mar 1993 11:50:17 GMT

>: "bootable rootdisk" ---although I still maintain that the bus mouse IRQs and
>: other hardcoded-but-likely-to-change "constants" should be settable at
>: runtime.
>
>Or by having code in the kernel to probe the system to work out this.
>(with an option to do it manually)

Or having an install program probing various things of the system and
writing out the correct /etc/rc.local, /etc/fstab, IRQ&port
configuration etc. files. 

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