On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 07:10, Aryan Ameri wrote: > On Friday 20 June 2003 07:08, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 21:50, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > > I have been using Debian for about 18 months now. > > > I like it and prefer it to other dristos I have tried. > > > > > > Today I had to install Redhat 9 on a system. > > > It detected everything. A totally good experience installing this > > > os. > > > > > > I'm not saying I will be moving from Debian to redhat, but I do > > > wish Debian would address the install procedure. > > > > > > Clearly it is possible to have comprehensive hardware detection, so > > > presumably somewhere someoene is choosing not to address this > > > issue. > > > > > > What is the reason debian does not install like other OSs ? > > > > Try Knoppix it is based on Debian and does all that detection. > > > > There's no good reason why Debian doesn't. > > Oh, really? > > Please come back, when you have a working KNOPPIX running on MIPS or > Sparc, and then we will talk.
There's no reason to get sarcastic. I run Debian on sparc and other architectures. Debian on each architecture is slightly different. For example on sparc there are images to boot off the network. I don't know if there are similar images for i386, but they would be useless anyways. This isn't a reason not to have them. As I said in another message, on sparc there is barely any hardware (2 sound cards, 2-3 network cards, some scsi cards) and most of it just works because it is included in the kernel. On i386 there's a gazillion different pieces of hardware. I don't see how adding hardware detection to i386 hurts any of the other architectures. P.S. Red Hat and Suse support other architectures too. I don't like Red Hat, and I certainly don't like Suse, but I mention it to show that hardware detection is compatible with portability. Just my two cents, Bijan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
