W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
Initially I was a little confused, but now I really admire the way Mandrake 9.0 handles p-n-p.If you unplug a HD from one PC and plug it into a second PC with a different hardware, Mandrake 9.0 will, "for the first time, and only first time," sua sponte (automatically), use new drivers for the new system. No questions asked. You don't need to do any re-configuration.However, the way Mandrake 9.0 is structured, if you want the HD to stick with the new PC, or simply to use it for a second time, then you have to re-configure it, which requires a root privilege. If you do not do the re-configuration, the hardware setup will revert back to its original state, nothing has been changed--I can see a lot of advantages of this arrangement.
I can see a few, but from the way you've worded it, it sounds like you are implying security...which is definately not true as a person has physical access to the hard drive.
...Personally I like the way Slack handles it...IE it doesn't. You just let it boot with a few errors, then go edit what modules to load. Seems to work fine for me, but I like command lines :)
--MonMotha
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