[Wolves] Debian Lenny on HP ML115 G5

[Alistair Sutton]

2009/10/9 DragonMaster <LUG at clews.homelinux.net>:
> Adam Sweet wrote:
>>  A live CD is only partial
>> assurance, but better than nothing.
>>
>> Has anybody here got any experience. I don't need to know about Etch,
>> Ubuntu or Red Hat cos I can already confim those from experience.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Adam Sweet
>>
>>
> Now, I'm going to show my ignorance here, but why is the live cd only a
> partial assurance - surely it will prove that the distro works on that
> hardware...??

In theory, yes, but occasionally there are bugs that prevent a proper
installation from working. I believe Ubuntu had some bug in one of
their releases that meant an install from the Live CD would not work
properly (of course I could just be making it all up).

Alistair