On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 11:26:51PM +0200, Denis HAVLIK wrote:
-> (I hope you do not get this twice on expert list)
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-> Hi, folks!
->
-> What follows is probably a single most important letter I ever posted on
-> these mailing lists, so please read it very carefully!
Anything you can do to provide reasonable defaults would help. To give a
simple example, if the user provides a class C IP address, give her a
class three default netmask. Then a default gateway on the same
network. Similarly, if the user is installing via FTP or NFS, and provides
an IP address and netmask, make those available as the defaults for the
permanent IP address, if any.
Anything you can do to probe the hardware and offer the results as
defaults is welcome. This should be easy to do with PCI cards and SCSI
busses, assuming you can get the data from the manufacturer.
Something to look at here is tomsrtbt. It simply walks through all the
modules on the disk and tries each one. So if you have a zip disk, it
installs ppa.o for you. This is dangerous, however, as it can lock up on
legacy hardware, such as NE-2000 clone cards.
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