Package: boot-floppies Version: 2.2.21 Severity: wishlist
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:43:58PM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Brown) writes: > > > but that is not user-friendly at all. There should be a *single* unified > > .bat file at the top level, that prompts the user, with a brief > > explaination as to why there is a choice. > > That's probably true. Patches accepted. Obviously, we're not very > strong on DOS batch programming here. Well damn, you just did your annouce of new boot disks right before I was ready to send you the "patch" :-/ Anyways, I'm sending this to debian-boot, even though you originally replied to me in debian-devel, because I'm guessing this is the better place. Please note, however, that I am NOT subscribed to debian-boot. A few notes here: * I could care less about boot floppies: I boot directly from cdrom. * What follows is a suggested replacement for (debian 2.2) (/cdrom)/install/boot.bat which is a "boot from msdos" util script, not the default "boot from cdrom" script. I'm not sure where that is, otherwise I'd offer a suggestion for that, too. * BTW: http://www.nc5.infi.net/~wtnewton/batch/batguide.html ------------------------------------------------------------ @echo off rem Flush any write-cached disk blocks before we leave DOS. smartdrv /c echo Please choose a linux kernel now echo 1= standard kernel (2.2) echo 2= compact kernel (2.2) echo 3= SCSI kernel (2.2) echo 4= experimental support enabled (2.4.0) choice /c:1234 if errorlevel 4 goto FOUR if errorlevel 3 goto THREE if errorlevel 2 goto TWO if errorlevel 1 goto ONE echo doing default somehow and going to ONE goto ONE :ONE echo using standard kernel loadlin.exe linux root=/dev/ram ro initrd=root.bin :TWO echo using compact kernel loadlin.exe lincompt root=/dev/ram ro initrd=root.bin :THREE echo using SCSI kernel loadlin.exe linscsi root=/dev/ram ro initrd=root.bin :FOUR echo using eXperimental kernel loadlin.exe linXprmt root=/dev/ram ro initrd=root.bin extraopts=something rem I would have liked to use variables for options but DOS doesnt rem like having an equals-sign in a variable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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