On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 03:53:46AM -0800, Debian Boot CVS Master wrote: > Repository: boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap > who: blade > time: Fri Mar 15 03:53:46 PST 2002 > Log Message: > Cosmetics. Please-wait-while-looking screens while CD-Rom detection. Rhirst > reported that this needs 4 seconds. IMHO this depends on the hardware quality, > but this looks better anyways.
With an empty SCSI CDROM drive on my hppa there is almost no delay when dbootstrap goes looking for a CD in it. With an empty IDE CDROM drive on my ia64 box there is a 5 second delay before 'no medium' is returned. This delay happens twice in quick succession when the system looks for the two .disk/*installable files on the CD, while looking to install the kernel. I then get 2*5 seconds delay again when the system looks for the flags prior to installing base. Multiple drives would make these delays even longer. I guess it is a feature of the particular CDROM drive; whether we call that lower quality, or whether it is actually trying harder to detect a possibly dirty disk before returning an error, I don't know. Having said that, the other 5 assorted DVD/CD drives I just tried all return pretty much immediately. We could at least halve these delays - for example there is no point looking for the base_installable file when installing the kernel, and no point looking for the kernel_installable flag when installing base. Cheers, Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
