Re: HPT366 install disks: do we have them?
[ Petr Cech writes ]
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 05:59:16PM -0800 , Philip Brown wrote:
> > To put it another way, it's too bad that the CDROM distribution isn't more
> > tailored towards "You have a CD, so let's make ALL drivers available to
> > you at once", rather than just duplicating the ftp.debian.org filestructure
>
> how? already the first CD boots with standard, the second with -compact I
> think flavour.
aha. I learn something again :-)
[although for some reason, the first cd does not actually boot at ALL
directly, with my computer, even though the BP6 bios supports "boot from
CDROM". It's on the second chain, but I dunno. Anyways...]
> Why the udma66 flavour is not the default see archives of
> debian-boot.
What I'm suggesting is that since ALL the various kernel options are
present on the one CDROM, then it would be nice to have a special boot
module that ASKS you, before anything else,
"Do you want
1. standard kernel
2. compact kernel
3. special hacked hpt366 kernel"
and then continues from there.
Since we have more room on the CDROM than your standard 1.44 boot floppy,
I think there should be more room for user-friendlyness.
Having the user discover halfway through the install process,
"oops, I booted from the wrong kernel, time to start all over again"
is the antithesis of user-friendly.
At some point, obviously, the hpt366 support itself will be passe. But
there will always be "optional" kernel configs, i'm sure.
And if you dont boot from the special ones, you wont have the opportunity
to install to (or from) that special device.
Therefore, the user should be given the choice at startup of the
install-from-CDROM process, IMO.
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