[Nottingham] Install problems on new Netbook - Aspire One D255

Joshua Lock incandescant at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 20:40:33 UTC 2011


On 11 July 2011 13:09, David Aldred <davidaldred at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Simon - see separate emails!
>
> On the underlying issue; if a USB install can't continue following the USB
> Mass Storage driver coming in, is it likely that there's soem weird piece of
> hardware involved here?

I'm reminded of a recent LWN article: https://lwn.net/Articles/450460/

In summary (aiui) the kernel doesn't really have a notion of driver
dependencies so it could be a simple mismatch there. Perhaps DSL has
the required driver built in and Ubuntu is using a module?

HTH,
Joshua
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Joshua Lock



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