Re: message to remove boot cd
greetings to all.
after having sent the message below i naively figured that there could be a
situation where the user has not set up his hard disk to be bootable.
so i believe that the message displayed is conditional.
the hd will be checked for bootability.
IF (hard disk is bootable) {
message 1 appears
} ELSE {
message 2 appears
}
==> message 1
----------------------------
Debian is about to reboot and continue this installation.
- To reboot from the hard disk, please remove any boot media
(boot-floppy, boot-CD, etc.) that you started with right NOW!
- To re-install from the beginning (and abort this installation),
ensure
your boot media remains in its drive.
Reboot the system?
----------------------------
==> message 2
----------------------------
Debian is about to reboot and continue this installation.
Note: You haven't set the hard disk to boot.
- To continue with installing from the boot media you used(boot-floppy,
boot-CD, etc.), ensure it remains in its drive.
- To make your hard disk bootable, ...<people, please help me complete
the action task here>....
Reboot the system?
----------------------------
ram
linux newbie
----- Original Message -----
From: ramsubs <ramsubs@pd.jaring.my>
To: <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 7:40 PM
Subject: Re: message to remove boot cd
> greetings to all.
>
> it was very interesting for me to see the various proposals and the forays
> into various OS systems and hardware. sounds like a great way to make
debian
> installation more friendly.
> IMHO, i wouldn't have gotten into my multi-installation fiasco if only i
had
> understood correctly.
> so my proposal is just to fix the displayed message.
>
> well, it would be great if you guys could do according to the various
> proposals. it would just make debian installation all the more
> sophisticated, with extreme simplicity as a by-product. takes the debian
> installation fame a couple of steps further.
>
> so, here goes my version of the message:
>
> ----------------------------
> Debian is about to reboot and continue this installation.
>
> - To reboot from the hard disk, please remove any boot media
> (boot-floppy, boot-CD, etc.) that you started with right NOW!
> - To re-install from the beginning (and abort this installation),
ensure
> your boot media remains in its drive.
>
> Reboot the system?
>
> ----------------------------
>
> my 2 cents worth...
>
> ram
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore-devel.com>
> To: Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>
> Cc: <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>; ramsubs <ramsubs@pd.jaring.my>
> Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 6:55 AM
> Subject: Re: message to remove boot cd
>
>
> > Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> writes:
> >
> > > #include <hallo.h>
> > > ramsubs wrote on Mon Oct 01, 2001 um 01:27:44AM:
> > >
> > > > i know i must seem stupid to many of you. if only a message had been
> > > > displayed just before reboot *to remove any boot cds or boot
> > >
> > > *g*
> > >
> > > > floppies*, i wouldn't have undergone three installs. well you have
to
> > > > pardon me, i come from a windoze world, and uncle bill thinks we are
> > > > stupid enough for him to include such a warning in a windoze
> > > > installation.
> > >
> > > Comments:
> > > - we are not discriminating people
> > > - your suggestion is worth enough to be implemented
> > > - I am looking for a way to detect the Boot-CD in the drive (Jörg
> > > Schilling's postings are somewhere in my archives). Should be easy
to
> > > implement: if(i386) and (boot-cd in any drive) -> WARNING.
> >
> > Too clever by half, IMHO. We can't know the intentions fo the user
> > and detecting a CD in the bay isn't all that useful.
> >
> > I'm changing the warning prior to reboot to this:
> >
> > If you are ready to reboot the system, you'll need to make sure you
> > are booting from the right media.
> >
> > If you are booting from the local disk, make sure there are no
> > floppies in the floppy drives and no CD-ROM in the tray. If you made
> > a custom boot floppy and want to boot from that, you should put that
> > floppy in the first floppy drive. Finally, you can restart the
> > installation system by booting from your install media.
> >
> > Please take care of all that before you answer "Yes" to the
> > following question.
> >
> > Reboot the system?
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > --
> > ...Adam Di
> Carlo..<adam@onshore-devel.com>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
> >
> >
>
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