On Jan 10, 2008 1:57 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > >>>> Hell no. We are in badly need of this crap just working out of the box. > >>> And how do you know automatically that one of my USB-to-RS232 adapters > >>> is my UPS (should be /dev/ups), one is my GPS (/dev/gps0), and one is a > >>> cell phone (/dev/modem)? > >> Either we look at the USB device it's hanging off (vendor, product or > >> class id's), the driver or we provide a simple interface in > >> gnome-device-manager or similar (including command line apps) to set it. > > > > You're wierd dude, this essentially the same thing I suggested and you > > discouraged. > > The system can't possibly work with multiple choices unless you have an > interface to let a human configure which is which. Now the kicker is > that most of my machines are in remote locations with swappable drives > and I expect to be able to ship a pre-configured drive built locally and > have someone pop it in a known controller position and have it come up > working - and to be able to copy images that will work across a number > of identical machines without individual attention other than setting > the hostname and IP addresses. I would have thought that with dirves you can jsut mount by labels, does this not work for your use case? -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
