Bug#240602: boot-floppies: sarge - there may be multiple driver floppies - need to ask for more

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

Yes.  It's the new debian-installer on an OldWorld PowerMac.

Jeremie has pointed out that one floppy worth of drivers should be 
enough to give you access to either a CD-ROM or a network, and 
that's all you "really" need.  So this is actually a "wishlist" 
request.  I have no problem with that.

So think of this as a birthday wish for the new debian-installer:
	That it always have an open ended design when it's easy and 
sensible to do so.


Thanks,

Rick

On Sunday, March 28, 2004, at 05:04 AM, Sven Luther wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 02:42:30AM -0500, Rick_Thomas wrote:
> > Package: boot-floppies
>
> Notice, that since this is probably a debian-installer you are using, a
> bug report against debian-installer should have been more likely.
>
> I think it goes to the same please though, just wanted to confirm that
> it is indeed debian-installer you are using here, or maybe not ?
>
> > Version: N/A; reported 2004-03-28
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > When starting an installation by booting from floppy, it first 
> > asks for the root disk then it
> > asks for the drivers disk.  If you answer yes to the drivers 
> > question, it loads one floppy worth
> > of drivers and continues the installation without asking if there 
> > might be more driver floppies
> > to be loaded.
> >
> > It should loop asking for more driver floppies until the user 
> > says "no more".
>
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther