hi,
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 09:33:16AM -0400, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
Moritz Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How can I auto-detect? When you load the ide-cd module it
auto-detects and reports the device.
/sys/block/hdc/removable is a start. Trying to mount and looking for
a
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From: Patrick J. LoPresti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 10:48 PM
To: Moritz Engel
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: the whole unattended on one cd/dvd!
Moritz Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi Pat,
First, thanks
Moritz Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How can I auto-detect? When you load the ide-cd module it
auto-detects and reports the device.
/sys/block/hdc/removable is a start. Trying to mount and looking for
a characteristic file on the DVD would be next, I think.
The first time I thought of it,
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
I agree. Although this has to work before Perl is installed, so we
may need to use VBscript (yuck) for the first time in the entire
project.
Or JScript :)
I've made following script for this purpose, it checks CD drives via WMI.
Though it should be probably modified
Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
Moritz Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How can I auto-detect? When you load the ide-cd module it
auto-detects and reports the device.
/sys/block/hdc/removable is a start. Trying to mount and looking for
a characteristic file on the DVD would be next, I think.
Moritz Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi Pat,
First, thanks for the great work and especially for new release
yesterday!
Don't just thank me! We have a whole crew of developers without whom
many of our best features would not exist.
unattended installation from a CD/DVD if no server is
iii) changing mapznrun.bat that it will use the cd-drive
Tricky to get right in general, since it is hard to be certain what
drive letter the CD-ROM device will have (especially if the user is
doing a customized partitioning scheme). But, again, an initial
version to handle the common case
