Hello Joerg Rossdeutscher (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I tried it, since I have an AMD64 and I am not happy with > Debian-pure64. > > Ubuntu was not bad, but I do not like it's "I-decide-for-you"-style, > i.e. it asks not enough questions during installation, has no > "modconf" (doesn't compile for them), and when I googled how to get > modconf I found an answer from a developer "You should normally not > need modconf, since Ubuntu should discover all modules automatically. > Which hardware is not running?". Well, I dropped Suse (and Windows > previously) since *I* want to "detect" and "manage" my stuff, not a > automatically-something-tool. And at the end of installation I found > myself with postfix instead of exim. What exactly does modconf do other than load a module and save it's name to /etc/modules? If you want to manage modules on your own, add their lines to /etc/modules. By the way, Debian Sarge also installs discover1 and hotplug by default, which will detect your hardware, and there is no modconf in the new installer. best regards Andreas Janssen -- Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP-Key-ID: 0xDC801674 ICQ #17079270 Registered Linux User #267976 http://www.andreas-janssen.de/debian-tipps-sarge.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
