> On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 17:18, Kenneth W Hansen wrote:
>> On the other distros I've used, the system looks for new hardware while
>> booting. I just realized that Debian doesn't - after I made some changes
>> to my box. Is this an option that can be added, or is it not available
>> in Debian?
>>
>
> Someone has ported harddrake from the Mandrake distro to Debian --
>
> http://torsion.org/witten/debian/
Debian doesn't (by default) have one of those hardware autodetectors like
Anaconda, because if you have hardware that's detected incorrectly, it
tends to destabilize (and crash) the system, and if it's happening at
boot, it can be a pain to get around it.
Levi
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