Bug#123948: b-f cdrom detection

[Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>]

On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 21:48, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Well, good luck.  I want the CDs I produce to ask as few questions as
> possible, and will probably be able to make them look sufficiently
> official to fool boot-floppies.  I do not think you can be certain
> about the content whatever you do.

Well, clearly it's not possible to be certain about the content if
people are deliberately setting out to trick dbootstrap into thinking
that a disk is official when, in fact, it isn't.  That's not a situation
that it's worth even trying to legislate for.

There isn't even any need for anybody to be doing this in the first
place: if you are generating your own custom install disks you should be
able to arrange for the rescue image to pass the "cdrom" boot argument
in to dbootstrap.  But if you are dead set on using the autodetection, I
guess the thing to do is to invent some new file on the disk that
specifically flags it as being an installation disk.

p.