Hardware detection after hard-disk install

[Ish Rattan]

Thanks for the boot-script execution problem resolution.

I have one more question
Is there a way to force the system to perform hadware detection
at boot time after Knoppix-3.4 Cd has been installed to disk? (something
like kudzu under Mandrake/Read-Hat)

-ishwar

[fingers99]

Not sure why you want to do this (unless you're popping on extra hardware post install) but kudzo and discover are both available as debian packages. Try:

apt-get install kudzo

or

apt-get install discover

[mikekgr]

...a small correction

the programs name is kudzu and not kudzo

Best Regards
Mike Kranidis

[Ish Rattan]

I do change pieces of hardware quite often and hence a desire to be able to
detect added/removed hardware pieces..
apt-cache search kudzu
does show a package but
apt-get install kudzu
says that it broken package. I found a knoppix version installed (kudzu-knoppix)
dpkg -l | grep kudzu
show it. The question is how to use it (no program or man page exists)?

-ishwar

[mikekgr]

Dear Ish Rattan,
Sorry but I am not "hardware detection" expert at all...

You can try :
kudzu --help
as well as
man kudzu

Best Regards
Mike Kranidis

[Ish Rattan]

Welll, let me rephrase it. If a piece fo hardware is removed or changed,
how can one make the system remove/add the hardware changed? (kudzu
is not an issue -- it is what I know from RH days) I am sure that debian
has spme way to handle the problem.

-ishwar

[fingers99]

It has: kudzu!

Works just fine on my 3.3 install.

If you've no man page (try man kudzu) then it's likely that it isn't installed. If the kudzu you have installed is broken, you need to look at the apt-get how to on the HD section of this forum to find a way of removing broken packages. (It may be easier to do it through synaptic). Then do an apt-get update and try installing again.

You might like to look at discover, too......