3.1.4.
Determining a PC's hardware via other OSs
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Hardware information can also be obtained from other OSs:
Install another commercial Linux distribution. Hardware detection on those
tends to be better than on Debian as of now. (This situation should even out
once debian-installer is introduced with Sarge.)
Install Windows. Hardware configuration can be obtained by right-clicking "My Computer" to get to Properties / Device Manager. Record all resource information such as IRQ, I/O port address, and DMA. Some old ISA cards may need to be configured under DOS and used accordingly.
