[plug] Laptop Compatibility

[Christian Müller]

Brad,

The Suse Distribution does that with their evaluation CD. Just a few MBs 
are needed on the HDD to save the config files, etc.

Christian

At 17:35 16/07/2001 +0800, you wrote:
>G'day again..
>
>Had an idea this morning..
>My laptop is in for repair, coz the smoke get away.. and while
>using a loan machine, I stumbled across the idea of a boot/run
>linux CD for the testing of laptops for hardware compatibility.
>
>The idea being a filesystem with all possible compiled kernel
>modules, plus the known extras.. like ltmodem and pcmcia.
>a full multi-driver xfree, plus the usual PCI utils for identifying
>what hardware is on board.
>
>I'm sure there is something like this out there, I have not looked
>much at all, but it's probably something to think about if your in
>the market for a new laptop.
>
>After buying mine and spending 2 days hacking the sound hardware
>to get it to work.. it would have been easier to be able to
>walk into the shop, pop a cd in.. do an lspci, then insmod the
>right drivers and test it all without disturbing the ever precious
>windows installation on the hard disk..
>You could then fork over the multiple $k confident that your new
>tool would do all you require of it.
>
>
>Workable ? Somebody has already done it ?
>
>--
>Brad....
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