Re: Having CD in drive should not disable network install

2002-03-01 Thread David Kimdon
Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 03:38:59PM +0100 wrote: > #include > Richard Hirst wrote on Fri Mar 01, 2002 um 01:26:38PM: > > > That patch wouldn't necessarily have helped me; I want the option of > > doing a network install, even if I happen to have forgotten that there > > was an official CD in the dri

Re: Having CD in drive should not disable network install

2002-03-01 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include Richard Hirst wrote on Fri Mar 01, 2002 um 01:26:38PM: > That patch wouldn't necessarily have helped me; I want the option of > doing a network install, even if I happen to have forgotten that there > was an official CD in the drive. Neither did it address the "please > pick an item fr

Re: Having CD in drive should not disable network install

2002-03-01 Thread Richard Hirst
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 12:14:14PM +, Phil Blundell wrote: > On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 11:35, Richard Hirst wrote: > > I can file bugs if people think these things are worth fixing. > > No need. :-) We already have two serious bugs open for this. Everybody > agrees that the current behaviour is

Re: Having CD in drive should not disable network install

2002-03-01 Thread Phil Blundell
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 11:35, Richard Hirst wrote: > I can file bugs if people think these things are worth fixing. No need. :-) We already have two serious bugs open for this. Everybody agrees that the current behaviour is wrong, it's just a case of fixing it. See, for example, David's note ye

Having CD in drive should not disable network install

2002-03-01 Thread Richard Hirst
IMHO anyway; feel free to disagree. Currently if there is a CD in the drive then the question about where you want to install from is skipped. This caused me much confusion when I net-booted an hppa box and tried to install kernel/drivers from the net, while I had an old CD in the drive. I think