Hello Joep,

I hardly have any experience with the "diskwait" command, AFAIK this
specific code didn't change since it was introduced in Dachstein years
ago.

I hope someone on this list which actually uses this feature can tell
something more about it. I think it's primary goal was to support a rescue
disk, looking at the code it doesn't seem to be possible to get the
functionality you are looking after. What is possible is to use a second
floppy drive and add both device in the PKGPATH, this way all packages
from both floppies are loaded.

Eric

> Hi, Eric,
> I have played somewhat with diskwait and I have some problems with it.
> First, diskwait=yes works in syslinux.cfg  but in leaf.cfg you need to
> use KMCD_diskwait=yes. Furthermore, I had the idea that diskwait looked
> first at the original disk and when it didn't find any packages than asked
> for the second disk and if this was not sufficient it did it again until
> all packages were loaded. I tested diskwait the following way:
> On the first disk I have the necessary files + root,lrp and libcrpto.lrp
> as they are large. This disk is 1.34 MB. On the second disk I have the rest
> which is 1.45 MB. diskwait in syslinux gave: "insert 2nd disk" immediately
> after starting LINUXRC.
> I then tried diskwait in leaf.cfg but that didn't work. I then set
> KMCD_diskwait in leaf before the LRP= line(s). That gave the same result
> as diskwait in syslinux.cfg. Setting KMCD_diskwait after the LRP= line
> didn't do anything ( and was skipped in the parsing of the leaf.cfg
> script). I therefore have a problem as I want to load all packages
> together. Of course I can install packages later and copying them from
> another system but I think that a solution to load Bering_uclib using
> multiple floppies with packages would be very welcome. USB could be a
> solution but old systems (often used for firewalls) do miss then. Hope you
> can help me out..  . Joep
>
>
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