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 :) -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team
