Hardware Detection

[Brian Kelsay]

Brian Densmore wrote:

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>>From:	Brian Kelsay

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>>I despise all that Palm stuff loading when I have no Palm device.
> 
> Run modconf and remove them. Although, they may be built into the kernel,
> which means apt-getting the kernel-source and rebuilding a debian kernel.
> I'm actually glad they error on the side of "throw everything you can think of
> in". That means I'm much more likely to successfully run on any machine I choose. There will 
always be give and take. I see lots of rants on here and other lists about how some distro didn't 
detect this or that. So now that someone has listened to the rants and installed "dhis, dhat and de 
other dhing"
> you're going to rant on them for including everything. Sheeesh! There's just no pleasing some 
people. ;')
> Remember it's your machine, you're responsible for maintainance and fine-tuning. ;')
> 
> Debian has discover.
> "apt-get install discover" and you'll get autodetection.
> It comes as part of the Bonzai Linux distro.

Thanks for the info. I didn't know about either of those tools yet.  I 
was thinking I would have to use apt-get or dpkg to remove any unneeded 
package.  Mainly I was speaking to a future improved installer for 
Knoppix for people loading to smaller drives.  I would love to put 
Knnoppix on a 2GB laptop drive, but I don't think it would quite fit.  I 
may have to install to a bigger disk, remove stuff and then copy to the 
smaller drive.  I only have one, maybe two larger laptop drives.  They 
are for portable storage in a USB enclosure, before you say "Why don't 
you just use the larger drive."

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