On 24 Feb 2002 00:54:37 +0300
Borsenkow Andrej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On ���, 2002-02-24 at 00:42, Charles A Edwards wrote:
> >
> > Not a bug exactly.
> > The only way that fd0 is accessible during installation, other than for making a
>boot disk, is if you boot with a disk in your Zip drive.
> > Unfortunately doing so results in the drive not being properly set-up
> > by devfs.
>
> What do you mean?
You asked the same when I reported it in 8.2 B1
Same problems as was shown with zip drives prior to release of
8.1.
If installation is run with a disk in the drive and the system is then booted with no
disk in drive trying to access disk when inserted in drive will produce no such device
error.
>
> > From my understanding at this time there is no resolution for this problem.
> >
>
> Hmm ... to resolve a problem it has to be made known first ...
>
This problem has been made known.
It has existed since pre 8.1.
I made it known at that time and have also reported it for all 3 8.2
Betas.
The response I got,I believe from Pixel and Warly but do not hold me to that, was as I
stated that at this time that there was nothing that could/would be done.
I even asked why the same option as is applied to the creation of the
boot disk could not be used when saving pkg selection or creating auto install floppy.
In the event that you do not have a USB Zip during installation when making a boot
disk the default is sda when this fails you are given the
option of selecting either sda Or fd0.
When saving pkg selection or creating an auto install disk the Only option you are
allowed is sda.
Charles
