On Tuesday 04 October 2005 16:04, D Bhardwaj wrote: > General question on installs: > I have new hardware and my install fails because it can't even recognize > the cd-rom even though it starts reading the CD, gets to the next screen > after USB detection and fails on cd detection? I switched to ubuntu for the > heck of it. It loads the os but doesn't recognize the nic or sound, maybe > other devices I haven't checked yet.
Try the kubuntu (http://kubuntu.org) breezy preview, I believe it has a very recent kernel (vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-386) which has better support for hardware. Generally I check hardware with knoppix or another live CD (I had a kubuntu live CD with me when I bought my laptop) as long as it could see the hard drive I was pretty sure I could get the rest of the system running. > What is the general work around in this situation? You could also take the hard drive out of the new computer, put it in the old computer, rsync the old drive over to the new, and build a kernel that supports your hardware. USB enclosures are awesome for this sort of task (actually they are pretty handy to have around for a variety of tasks). Hope this helps. > > Dharam > > >
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