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Re: HD Parameters



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On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 16:44, Scott Henson wrote:
> Umm I think they already had something like this in the works, but they
> descided that this setting made the boot floppies unstable in some way
> or another.  So they decided not to put it in there.  Now what I would
> suggest would be to put this in a lilo debconf question.  I would think
> it would be better to do it in one of the many cd writer packages, but
> if I remember correctly dpkg wont allow one package to allow one package
> to write to another's files.  This is an intresting quandry.  I would
> say maybe a debconf warning telling the user to add it to his lilo.conf
> in the cd writer packages.  In any case, it was basically descided that
> it wouldnt be included in the boot floppies or insluded by default.

Maybe it should ask if you want to set it, and then just do it if you say 
yes. It's hard to remember something it tells you to do during installation. 
Thanks,

David
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