On Sunday 22 September 2002 23:49, Ben Reser wrote: > On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 06:40:43PM -0400, George Czerw wrote: > > However, the point is that if Mandrake is trying to build & market a > > worldclass product, then it should also have a worldclass installation > > routine that recognizes the appropriate peripheral devices during the > > installation routine and installs the correct drivers at that time. A > > newbie would have one heck of a problem figuring out how to handle that. > > Besides, if Mandrake wants to draw users away from M$, it better get the > > installation routine as perfect as possible, and not tell the user to do > > something post-install. > > blah blah blah... > isapnp isn't probed at install time because some users machines will > just flat out crash if you do this. There's no way to determine if it's > safe or not. So it's better to run an install and tell the few people > who are still using ISA cards to run a command to probe for it than have > the installer crash for a bunch of people who probably don't even have > ISA on their machine. >
Well the installer could record where it got to, (ie. what made it crash), and skip those dodgy steps when you do a continue install. > So doing what you ask would probably make for a less "world class > installer" -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
