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Bug#242776: [Successful Install] Dell Latitude CPx (650Mhz/PIII + 256MB Ram)



Dan Weber wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 01:37:34PM -0400, Adam Garside wrote:
> > The only issue I noticed was during 'grub-install' where the process
> > hung for a period of ~4 minutes due to probing for the floppy drive (the
> > bay still had the CD-Rom in.) Perhaps putting a message indicating that
> > this might be a problem or allowing the option of installing grub with '--no-floppy' might help people who have never experienced this before (or didn't know to ALT+F4 to see why.)
> For machines that require boot from floppy, we probably can't remove
> that.  However it maybe possible to add a syslinux option to flag that
> there is no floppy or something of that sort.  Thanks for the note.

I changed grub-installer a while ago to pass --no-floppy unless the user
tells it to install grub _to_ a floppy.

-- 
see shy jo

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