Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Gettys Servo Control

The core of the detection process of most linux installers is kudzu. This
little program probes your hardware looking for mouse/keyboard ports,
serial/parallel ports, hard disk types and sizes, and the video card. Other
interfaces such as network cards are also probed so that the system knows
what needs to be configured. On the whole, kudzu performs it's task reliably
on virtually all PCs (some uncommon hardware does cause problems from time to
time).

Once the hardware has been detected and confirmed by the user, the various
drivers and associated configurations are installed - The inner details of
how anaconda or kudzu work are well outside the list topic of CNC. Suffice to
say, you are at the mercy of the distribution builder as to exactly what gets
installed and what is left out. The BDI will install all the basic packages
to get you up and running with EMC and also provide a usable desktop
enviroment should you wish to do the web, email, or play games.

Regards, Paul.



n Friday 24 Jan 2003 12:48 pm, "justjuha wrote:

> There is one promising thing that I found dedicated for me, the BDI,
> brain dead installation. I'm still fairly suspicious about this, how
> does it install e.g. the all drivers to my PC?
> furthermore, I'm newbie in this PC-CNC stuff, so there is enough
> things without linux

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