Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > The retrievers should depend on the hardware thats found yet. Until > the floppy module is loaded and a floppy drive is found (is anyone > working on detecting this?) floppy-retriever should be disabled. As > long as no network module is loaded net-retriever should be > disabled. As long as no cdrom drive is available cdrom-retriver should > be disabled. > > Actually the net configuration should depend on a net module being > loaded and cd-detect on a cdrom driver. That should prevent network > configuration or cd searching before its available. These dependencies already exist for the cdrom and network retreivers. Floppy retreiver needs more work; some floppies are scsi devices. But that does not help with the problem I stated. Main-menu just configures the network before using the retreiver. > Secondly it would be better to order them "cdrom, net, floppy" and try > each one in turn till one works. I am sure that no hardcoded order will work for all possible install scenarios. We need something more flexible. -- see shy jo
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