-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 22:32, MEISCH,CORY (HP-Vancouver,ex1) wrote: > >>I know it's kind of late in the game and it's been discussed before but I >>was wondering if we could have a "Laptop Installation" class. For now, all >>it would have to be is: a kernel with ACPI enable and things like SCSI and >>other stuff not found in laptops turned off. Then for software, just enable >>ACPI by default and install/configure the suspend scripts. Currently, as an >>(ignorant) user, I have to make sure to enable ACPI during install, and >>remember to install the other scripts post install... > > > SCSI turned off? I'm not entirely sure how it works, but would that > cause any inconvenience for, for example, a USB2 CDRW drive?
And USB flash drivers, usb-storage camers, PCMCIA-SCSI cards (we have one, though it currently only gets used under Windows, but still ...) And don't DrakX and drakboot install the necessary packages if you use them to enable ACPI? I haven't had to mess with any things. Really, I don't see that you can differentiate between laptops and any other machines (besides possibly the hard disk patch ...), since a number of laptops now ship with >1GB ram, and many users do development work with many server components installed ... It would be nice though to have DrakX detect laptops, and install relevant packages (such as tpctl, tpb etc etc), but a lot of the packages are in contrib anyway. Features I *would* like to see are things like the ability for diskdrake to create a suspend-to-disk partition on laptops with a compatible BIOS. Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/L4JqrJK6UGDSBKcRAprCAKDKuENtO2y/HJYcz4T817p+QE/6iACfXIdK mGsWRl4ESfaJHs47Jl6jP/g= =3lfY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ****************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. ******************************************************************
