On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 08:06:10PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I hope fixing this doesn't disable the CDROM and that ascii or jessie > will still install from a CDROM when you *have* a CDROM.
Ascii and Jessie are Stretch and Jessie respectively, both of which have CD as the _primary_ install method (USB storage being just dumb wasteful emulation that doesn't allow any goodies a writeable medium would allow). There are no plans to change this for Buster, either. On the other hand, I for one haven't owned a machine equipped with a CD drive in like a decade (and DVD or BD: never), although I do have a few drives in the junk pile, briefly attached one last year to help a relative to sort through old stuff. CD/DVD/BD drives are hardware that's already rare and will become unheard of very shortly. > My machine's USB has died. Then how do you attach peripherals? New boxes don't tend to come with a PS2 port anymore. Unless your machine is a laptop, in which case you already have a keyboard and a bad pointing device, but have no way to attach a CD drive even if you wanted. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ ... what's the frequency of that 5V DC? ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
