[linux-audio-user] Red Hat 9.0 is installed!

[RTaylor]

Erik Steffl <steffl at bigfoot.com> wrote:
> > Ismael Valladolid Torres <ismael at sambara.org> wrote:
> >>El viernes, 22 de agosto de 2003, a las 12:19, Chris Share escribe:

> >>>It correctly detected my video card and monitor, something that
> >>>Debian couldn't do.

> >>It's not that the Debian installer can't detect your video card. It
> >>simply does not try to.

>    on intel machines you can use knoppix to 'jump-start' debian, it has 
> pretty good auto-detection (boot knoppix live CD, instal to disk, change 
> /etc/apt/sources.list to debian and then use normal debian maintenance 
> procedures (apt-get, aptitude etc.))

 I usually keep binaries {debs} and config files {sources list pointed at
 the second partition... most of the /etc directory} on a second partition.
 {I use cfdisk to format things... I've not yet had it eat a partition
 other than the one I'm targeting.} I generally copy the home directory
 and whatever other stuff I've changed there as well. {you can automate this}

 After the intial install and configuration all you had to do to reinstall
 to a pristine state is boot the {there's a really small Debian install 
 distribution that seems almost failsafe to me {installs on anything}} 
 install disk, run the install and after the restart, when the installer
 runs dselect. you can log in on a second terminal, cp the appropriate
 files and just run dselect from there. Takes an hour or so at the outside
 {depending on what you have installed ...keep specific debs {just copy
 the /var/cache/apt/archives directory to a directory after you do an 
 online install} and you can just select everything in dselect}.

 You can afford to take a few risks this way. {Which I do all too often}
 
 It also helps to recreate the install on a second disk or partition {8o gig
 disks are ~100.oo ...an install only takes a few gigs.} ...You can put all
 of the relevant systems into lilo {Debians install will do this automatically}
 and just boot another system should you happen to munge things.

 If you use pluggable drives you can set up specific system environments for
 specific uses {only need the first few gigs on the drive} ...Linux {unlike
 windows} travels really well. You can generally switch drives between systems.
 If you save a copy of the config files on a partition it becomes a simple
 matter to move a system between machines.