hardware dependent files in backupForum: Other Help Topics Topic: hardware dependent files in backup started by: Glacial Posted by Glacial on Feb. 26 2006,00:56
GreetingsFirst what I"m doing and hope to do with DSL: Use it on three very differnt computer to provide me with a common GUI and tools to help me be more productive. One machine has NT4, another has SuSE 8.?, and the other has SuSE 9.? By using DSL I can leave the HDisks alone and still have a common system on the three differnt machines. My question: Is there any hardware dependent stuff in the standard backup to my flash drive that I should be aware of? All three machines are very different in hardware as well as software. So far it all seems to be working fine. And makes if very nice for me as I move between the differnt machines. Glacial Posted by roberts on Feb. 26 2006,17:46
Are you using the Qemu embedded version?The only possible issues from being truly nomadic might be if the machines had radically different video, say one required framebuffer and the others xvesa, or one had a serial mouse and the others did not. But for most modern machines probably not an issue. Both of these 'hardware' devices are specified in .xinitrc The other possible issue is if one of the machines required static ip and that could be in the backup. But if all use DNS to fetch their ip then you should be indeed very nomadic with DSL. Posted by Glacial on Feb. 27 2006,00:14
>>Are you using the Qemu embedded version?Nope. It seems to be working just fine. The hardware is very different but the video must not be that different as it seems to be working. But at least I know what to watch for. So far I'm a very happy camper with this. It's doing what I needed/wanted it too and I've had no serious problems at all! Thanks Posted by roberts on Feb. 27 2006,00:49
Glad to hear this. Maybe there is indeed hope in moving forward that hardware standands will emege and we will all have such an experience.
Posted by cbagger01 on Feb. 27 2006,06:06
The biggest "gotcha" for me is when I switch from a PC that has a USB mouse over to a PC that has a PS/2 mouse.If I remember, I can fix the problem at boot type by typing: dsl xsetup Otherwise, I must press CTRL-ALT-DEL and then type xsetup.sh and reconfigure and then startx In theory, if knoppix mouse autodetection was right 100% of the time, it would be possible to use the output of the autodetection to help with the mouse selection for the .xserverrc In other words, use autdetection information in /etc/sysconfig/ to dynamically build an .xserverrc that uses the correct pointing device. Or maybe just default to specifying the generic mouse device symlink: /dev/mouse Just a thought. |