nemesis wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> SUSE 10.1 would crash during install on my machine unless I managed to
>> interrupt it in the 0.75 seconds before it installed the buggy USB
>> driver that would take out the system.  It took me literally two days
>> of trying before I could get to a login prompt after an install.

What driver? What kernel does the system have?

I'm being curious. Yes, it can be a buggy driver. OTOH, USB is pretty
standardized system and AFAIK there hasn't been a lot of changes is USB
host systems, so I think I should have heard of such a problem, but I
never have.

> I understand that Linux just install everything automatically.  

Certain distributions install 'bout everything automatically. Yes, they
are the distributions normally hinted to people to be tried as "first
distribution", but I still don't think it should be generalized to be a
*Linux* -feature.

> Under
> Windows, you install the basic OS and then go on manually inserting
> driver CDs or downloading them and installing for yourself, with any
> luck.  There are pros and cons for each method.

Nope, you install NIC drivers and download the rest from the Internet ;).

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