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Re: quick install report from Windows



Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:

> On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 03:15:28AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > - the whole interaction between choose_archive_dir and the mountpoint
> >   is still extremely awkward.  It just doesn't work like it should.  I
> >   was just playing around with the harddisk option and things just
> >   weren't working right.  Sometimes it would feed me /instmnt and
> >   sometimes it wouldn't.  I'll have to play around more to have more
> >   specific details.
> 
> if you really want to fix this, i suggest:
> 
> rm -rf utilities/dbootstrap/choose_medium.c
> 
> and start over.  so far that is the most discusting peice of code ive
> run into in b-f.

Yes, it is.

As you are no doubt aware, I was hoping to maybe look at how this
could be improved a little w/o a total rewrite.  Now is the time for a
boot-floppies feature freeze, not total rewrites.

-- 
...Adam Di Carlo..<adam@onshore-devel.com>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>



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