[Wolves] Ubuntu: Reconfiguring hardware

[Baza]

On 5/12/04 1:49 pm, "Jono Bacon" <jono at jonobacon.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> For my dads christmas present this year, I want to solve the utter hell
> he is having with Windows and install Linux on his computer. My question
> is this, I was considering buying him a 30GB hard drive and then
> installing Ubuntu on it on my own computer. Is it possible to then take
> the hard drive, shove it in his computer and have it automatically
> detect hardware and configure the system?
> 
> If this is not possible, I will just install it on his PC while I am there.
> 


In the spirit of experiment I've just done this on a spare 20gig IDE drive
and put it in my Dell Dimension 2400, and bugger me, it worked. All I had to
do was get X11 working for the flat panel, oh yeah, the internal don't work,
no wows there though.

Baz