Michael Noble wrote:
On another system that I had, I did try and use makedev, but it did
not work. It made the devices, but links were not made to correct
locations....
I ended up rebuilding the system with the drive in and all went well.
The system now sees the tape drive, there really ought to be a better
way to add hardware to a Linux box without having to rebuild the system.
sometimes a reinstall is best.
kudzu was a nice idea, yet for some reason it was dropped with ver 9.
of beauties of linux, is open source, as everyone can help debug and improve
linux. yet this leads to some of linux's down falls. new versions.
a major will come out, have problems, and folks jump on them to see what they
can do to help improve. improvements are gather, debugs and fixes are made,
sub levels come out. then, oops, something did not get fixed. kudzu, maybe.
then 'well that is ok, harddrake can take care of new hardware'. but it
does not. could kudzu have handled it? do not know, no kudzu in this version
because it may have had a minor problem that no one worked on. or what ever.
in some ways, such a scenario is good, in some ways it is bad. over all,
it is hard to say and only time will prove out what is best.
from way linux has grown and matured, i can not fault what has happened.
it is by far, still a better system than oos.
of all of what is being done to improve linux and make it more 'user friendly',
one of things that has never been done, is a prog that would gather all configs
and setting and save them for making new installations easier.
maybe one day this will happen. until then, it is up to each user to either save
his/her configs and apply to new installs. or, just to remember what was done and
hope that there is not any great change that would make old configs useless.
when i make changes, i first save old settings as 'filename.000' and increase
'000' as i make changes. then if i error, i still have old settings to reapply.
some files that are changed by config progs that i have no control over, i will
look for '~' or what ever happens to be used to designate a change. and yes,
some progs do not do this. that is when, if a critical, i will look back thru
directories for mod dates to show changes. a lot is required this way, but it
has helped when reinstalling, upgrading or new installs. sometimes, i do not
bother, as configs are such that just making changes is easier than looking
for old files.
it is an old and worn out phrase, but 'practices makes perfect'. with enough
practice, one becomes efficient. :)
jmo.
peace out.
tc,hago.
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