On Tuesday 20 November 2007, Rage Callao wrote: > On Nov 16, 2007 4:49 PM, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote: > > On Friday 16 November 2007, Rage Callao wrote: > > > Hi, is there a boot parameter for the installer that will bring me to > > > the cdrom-checker screen? I'm using etch. tnx in advance > > > > No, I don't think that's possible. > > Well, in theory anything is possible with the installer, but there is > > no official/regular way to do it. > > Thanks for the answer Frans. Is there any chance that this feature > will make it to the Lenny > release. Something like integrity-check which works with Ubuntu. > > I played around with the Etch installer a bit and found that as soon > as the CDROM is mounted its > possible to access a console, cd into the /cdrom directory and do a: > > md5sum -c md5sum.txt > > Maybe a script in initrd.gz that does something similar perhaps? I really do not see what you want here. We already _have_ a cdrom check function. To use it, just exit to the installer's main menu by using the <go back> button and choose the option "Check the CD-ROM's integrity". I don't see _any_ need for a boot parameter to invoke that function.
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