Re: The Distribution

["Orn E. Hansen" <oe.hansen@oehansen.pp.se>]

Þann 20-Jan-98 skrifar George Bonser:
> 
> And your point is?  That is the problem, there are too many different
> kinds of systems being sold.  At the start, we put the system in some
> configuration that is known to work on darned near every computer on the
> planet.  The goal is to get a useable GUI running to "bootstrap" the rest
> of the install. It can always be beefed up later but we probably do not
> want out install program to be huge. A script that generates a rather
> generic XF86Config file based on the answers to those questions are all we
> need to get started.  
> 
  Most systems have VGA, and why not query the Video Bios about the type of
display connected?  Or does Linux make that impossible?

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