Re: Booting to floppy
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 11:35:50PM -0800, Tovar wrote:
> just my crazy suggestion, if you can't get the keyboard to work right
> for the rootdisk prompt, what about changing it to wait 10 or 15
> seconds for a rootdisk insertion and then continuing? would that be
> difficult/messy to implement?
>
> Well, the standard Mac way of doing things is the check the floppy status
> and to read whatever gets inserted. That, of course, assumes the floppy
> hardware provides that information. Actually, i wish the i386 installer
> would do that, it would save alot of hassle.
i386 generally can not do that.
PowerPC theoretically could... if I could talk the driver into giving
me that information. Suggestions welcome :)
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Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer
Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team
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