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Re: boot-floppies 2.2.9 and Debian CD's...



Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:

> By the time dbootstrap sees the root of the cdrom, it already knows that
> it is a cdrom and has asked two questions it didn't need to ask. Putting
> it there is not really going to help any.

Duh.  I knew there was a flaw in my logic.

> This is just something that needs to be done in the debian-cd package, for
> each of the boot setup scripts. AFAIK, these scripts (for each arch)
> already do a lot of weird stuff anyway to make things bootable. 

Yeah, I wouldn't be suprised.

> Plus, this
> isn't a *required* thing. You wont ever notice it if the change isn't made
> to debian-cd, it will work like it always has. I've already done sparc.
> 
> > Also, could you please notate these and all other changes in
> > debian/changelog of boot-floppies?  Thanks.
> 
> Most of it already is, I'll add the other few I missed tonight.

Thanks. 

Excellent work, BTW, Ben!  As you know, CD auto-sensing is *very* dear
to my heart.

-- 
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>


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