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.
> 
> hmm, you interrupt it before it installs a "buggy" USB driver? 

I don't remember exactly what it was. It was one of the packages that 
was optional that didn't work with my machine. Then the next one, then 
the next one, etc etc etc.  One of which was some strange problem in the 
USB stuff.

 > It would
> crash without the interrupting?  what has you hooked to the USB port?

Well, I unplugged everything unnecessary.

> I understand that Linux just install everything automatically. 

Well, everything available, yah.

> 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. 

Unless the vendor gives the drivers to the central distribution site 
known as "Windows Update". :-)  I know lots of sysadmins of windows 
systems that won't purchase hardware whose device drivers need you to be 
at the machine to install.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     On what day did God create the body thetans?

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