Installing with 2.4.0-test8 and devfs, problem with floppy

[Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Over the last two weeks I made extensive changes to the boot-floppies
to get it to work with a 2.4.0-test kernel and devfs mounted at boot
time.

I now have a 37K diff with a lot of changes and can install from a
mounted medium but not from floppy.

When I want to install from floppy and select /dev/fd0 as medium I get
two "Bad file descriptor" errors displayed and then a dialogbox
telling me that the extraction failed.

I did add code to test for /dev/fd0 and /dev/floppy/0 and use the
right one, so the device and mounting should be fine. Also I can mount
the disk by hand, so floppy works and the filesystem is right.

Can anyone give me a clue as to what causes the two "Bad file
descriptor" errors and whats likely to fail?

Anyone willing to test can get my diff from:

ftp://rut.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/boot-floppies-mrvn.diff.bz2

But beware, its work in progress.

May the Source be with you.
                        Goswin