Bug#123948: b-f cdrom detection

2002-02-19 Thread Philip Blundell
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 21:48, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Well, good luck. I want the CDs I produce to ask as few questions as > possible, and will probably be able to make them look sufficiently > official to fool boot-floppies. I do not think you can be certain > about the content whatever you

Bug#123948: b-f cdrom detection

2002-02-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Phil Blundell] > The fact that one package is present doesn't mean that all the required > files will be there. No, and the fact that whatever test is in boot-floppies concludes that it is a official CD doesn't mean all the files will be there either. > It's much better to err on the side of ca

Bug#123948: b-f cdrom detection

2002-02-19 Thread Phil Blundell
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 15:14, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [David Kimdon] > > We don't want to net only install CDs to be detected as an official > > cdrom since the packages aren't on the cd. > > I thought the point was to avoid asking questions if the base packages > where present on the CD. Wh

Bug#123948: b-f cdrom detection

2002-02-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[David Kimdon] > We don't want to net only install CDs to be detected as an official > cdrom since the packages aren't on the cd. I thought the point was to avoid asking questions if the base packages where present on the CD. Why not just check if one of the base packages is present on the CD th

Bug#123948: b-f cdrom detection

2002-02-19 Thread David Kimdon
Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:33:29PM -0600 wrote: > On Feb 15, David Kimdon wrote: > > The following (untested) patch may give us the behavior we want, I > > think, any seconds? > > > > The only change here is that we are checking the contents of the file. > > In general the change that I committed fo

Bug#123948: b-f cdrom detection

2002-02-17 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Feb 15, David Kimdon wrote: > The following (untested) patch may give us the behavior we want, I > think, any seconds? > > The only change here is that we are checking the contents of the file. > In general the change that I committed for 3.0.19 is to check the > contents of any cdrom drives a

Bug#123948: b-f cdrom detection

2002-02-15 Thread David Kimdon
Hi, The following (untested) patch may give us the behavior we want, I think, any seconds? The only change here is that we are checking the contents of the file. In general the change that I committed for 3.0.19 is to check the contents of any cdrom drives at boot. If there is a debian cdrom in