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The operating system has no idea, and why should it? You can just as easily install the OS on a computer that you built yourself and therefore wouldn't have a make and model. If the OS depended on that information it would be pretty lame.
Distribution: mandrake 10 , Novell Desktop Linux (suse) , knoppix
Posts: 85
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i need to make myself clearer.
i dont expect the os to know i just want to be able to access BIOS details, such as motherboard id etc. to add to the image name of an image i will be sending to a server.
on my laptop i can find the make and model with dmesg, but only because the ACPI module happens to be looking at a compaq power unit.
i know i can get things like processor and memory from /proc/cpuinfo and so on.
but i would really like to be able to add the make and model of pc/mobo
i know it can be done because i can see it in yast for instance.
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