On Friday 08 June 2001 4:22 am, you wrote:
> > 3rd Question: Redhat 7.1 attempts to do hardware detection each boot - is
> > common on all distros?.
>
> Yes. Its a feature of the linux kernel, not the distribution.
> Unfortunately, if I remember correctly, pnp negotiations happen
> before linux gets a look in, and may be impossible for linux to
> change later.
Ted, RH has a 'value added' feature called kudzu that does the kind of
auto-probe for new devices that install programs and Win do. If it detects
changes, it offers to create or remove devices, and will tinker with some
systems files as well as mknod's for devices.
It can take quite a long time to run on slower systems, though it is handy
when installing new network cards etc. as it will often do the right thing,
and get modules.conf and modprobe run.
Of course if it does the wrong thing...
Rob
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