HardwareActivation
Revision 4 as of 2005-10-27 18:43:25
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Launchpad Entry: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/hardware-activation
Created: Date(2005-10-27T18:41:16Z) by JaneWeideman
Contributors: JaneWeideman,ScottJamesRemnant
Packages affected:
Created: Date(2005-10-06T18:48:47Z) by JaneWeideman
Interested: ScottJamesRemnant
Summary
Our current boot process has parts that rely on certain pieces of hardware being available, such as networking, bluetooth, sound and printers. We should instead provide a means to activate these when the hardware is detected rather than assuming it exists, and move the startup scripts into activation scripts instead.
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Data preservation and migration
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