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Re: waiting for a non existant floppy



On Monday 30 June 2008, dmanye wrote:
> i'm installing debian with lenny installer rc2 on a computer without
> floppy disk. the installation is done in text mode. when the installer
> search for disks it "hangs" for a minute or so and there's no message.
> in the debug console  (alt+f4) appear a couple of messages with
> something like:
>
> kernel: end_request: i/o error, dev fd0, sector 0.

Known issue, see for example http://bugs.debian.org/373594.
This needs a fix in parted, but unfortunately the parted maintainers have 
not yet picked up our request to skip floppy devices.

Cheers,
FJP

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