[TriLUG] OT: Retail SharksoI

[Aaron S. Joyner]

Roy Vestal wrote:

>Testing it thoroughly might be a little tricky (they'd
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>>have to throw in another hard drive temporarily, drop windows on it,
>>test the widget, and then swap the drives back), but they should be able
>>to do that for most hardware.  I could believe that they might not go to
>>that trouble when first installing new hardware into your machine that
>>has been otherwise working, unless you brought the hardware back saying
>>that it particularly had a problem.  But at that point they should
>>certainly be able to verify that the hardware is working properly and
>>narrow it down to the fact that you have a problem with your Linux setup.
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>>Have you had experience that would suggest otherwise?
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>Aaron, have you guys tried building a test CD with Bart's Boot CD? Windows
>based, not linux based. We use it to create network boot CD's for example.
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>http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/
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Unfortunately, I'd rather not get that in-depth into our internal tech 
procedures on the list.  Ask me at the next meeting and I can probably 
elaborate.  :)  The reference to creating a test setup was modeled 
around an example situation where new or unusual hardware is involved 
(the hoopskirt, in particular being a finicky piece of hardware), where 
booting to a static configuration such as CD isn't desirable (as it's 
unlikely to have the latest drivers, etc without heavy maintenance).

Aaron J.