anyone want to respond? I'm not sure if this has been fixed (the kernel panic) or if we can do what he's asking already in d-i...
----- Forwarded message from Volker Sturm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- X-Envelope-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Volker Sturm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Debian Installer Importance: Normal -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, just a suggestion: I had immense problems with installing Woody on a laptop computer. The reason was pcmcia. The pcmcia-cs scripts or whatever the default install is, cause a Kernel panic. I had to let Debian remove the PCMCIA packages and that solved the problem. Other distributions (like Gentoo 1.4) do not let me have that choice and thus I cannot install that at all. What I want to say is: It would be nice to be able to play around with ALL the modules at install time to disable some if necessary. You can never tell if some piece of hardware is messing up the autodetection mechanism. At least it should not hang the system - bailing out with an error message is way better. So - that is my wish list... Now you say: Well, go on, do it. Hmm. I do study Information Technology and I already did some programming for linux. But a installer would be quite challenging I bet. I dunno if I am up to something like that. Regards, Volker Sturm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQE+cda1jJsnsD0ou00RAuomAJ9Hxy1He6tUJwjJUs3oZezMNX5rOQCeOFre 9c77k12oBHM4jkE1Arg7aYE= =iwEq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----- End forwarded message ----- -- michael cardenas | lead software engineer, lindows.com hyperpoem.net | GNU/Linux software developer people.debian.org/~mbc | encrypted email preferred "We, the men of the mind, are now on strike against you in the name of a single axiom, which is the root of our moral code, just as the root of yours is the wish to escape it: the axiom that existence exists." - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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