"Vincent Meyer, MD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
> 4) Pixel - the "bug" command on console 2 is broken. It wants a floppy > with an ext2 file system! OK, so i made an ext2 file system on the floppy, > then it complained about not having a valid partition table on the floppy. are you sure it's the "bug" command that complains about the "not having a valid partition table on the floppy"? > The floppy is an LS120 drive, which is /dev/hdd - could that be the reason? [...] > 6) I'm on a laptop,. and there are PCMCIA issues: > > 6a) - you can't sync the time with ntp if the network isn't up. ntp is > brought up BEFORE the pcmcia is, so the network isn't started yet. > Would it make sense to bring up pcmcia earlier? That way can also detect new > pcmcia devices when detecting new hardware? > > 6b) - if a pcmcia cd-rw is detected, can we restart ide-scsi? I currently > have to manually modprobe -r ide-scsi and then modprobe ide-scsi. After > that it's recognised. > > I don't think this will break anything, as most laptops don't have a built in > scsi controller, so re-assigning the scsi entries or whatever shouldn't be a > problem. Very few desktops with scsi controllers have pcmcia support, and > even less of them would be using ide controlled CD-RW's > > I CAN'T POSSIBLY be the only person in the world who wants to run Mandrake on > a laptop with a pcmcia controlled CD-RW! chmouel?
