Re: boot-floppies 2.2.9 and Debian CD's...
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 02:03:36PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:
>
> > > Well, you can also just try it _unless_ the user asks you _not_ to. That's the
> > > M$ way, and AFAIR I didn't hear complaints about that at all ;-))
> >
> > Well, I'm just worried about too many unknowns with this approach this
> > late in the game. It wont even matter for woody since we will have devfs
> > and we can easily probe /dev for configured cdrom's.
>
> Actually, we did try Anne's "try all the mounts and see if it
> succeeds", but this will cause hangs on certain broken hardware.
>
> I am satisified with BenC's approach, although I do think that a
> bootargs flag would be cleaner and more inline with how we're doing
> other such switches for dbootstrap.
I can do that pretty easily (minimal code changes in dbootstrap, since the
support is there, just the is_cdrom_install() check will change). I'll try
a test sparc CDROM before committing.
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