[luau] Plug-&-Play (M$ secret code)

[MonMotha]

W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
> Initially I was a little confused, but now I really admire the way 
> Mandrake 9.0 handles p-n-p.
> 
> If you unplug a HD from one PC and plug it into a second PC with a 
> different hardware, Mandrake 9.0 will, "for the first time, and only 
> first time," sua sponte (automatically), use new drivers for the new 
> system.  No questions asked.  You don't need to do any re-configuration.
> 
> However, the way Mandrake 9.0 is structured, if you want the HD to stick 
> with the new PC, or simply to use it for a second time, then you have to 
> re-configure it, which requires a root privilege.  If you do not do the 
> re-configuration, the hardware setup will revert back to its original 
> state, nothing has been changed--I can see a lot of advantages of this 
> arrangement.

I can see a few, but from the way you've worded it, it sounds like you 
are implying security...which is definately not true as a person has 
physical access to the hard drive.

> 
...

Personally I like the way Slack handles it...IE it doesn't.  You just 
let it boot with a few errors, then go edit what modules to load.  Seems 
to work fine for me, but I like command lines :)

--MonMotha
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