From: Friedrich L. <fl...@fl...> - 2004-04-06 23:38:33
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Roland Pabel wrote on 07.04.2004 01:33 MET: > On Wednesday 07 April 2004 01:24, Friedrich Lobenstock wrote: > >>Roland Pabel wrote on 07.04.2004 01:18 MET: > > [...] > >>Äh, what do you mean by "any device first"? Do you intend to have some >>function that try's all possible and impossible block devices and their >>partitions if any? > > I don't need to code that, that essentially what linuxrc does... > "Any" here just means "scan the standard devices", which is what the > CONFIG_SRC_LIST variable hols in the linuxrc script. (That is now almost > "every devices": ide-/scsi- cdroms/disks/partition and floppies). > What I wanted to describe was: when a filename is given, search for it first; > if not found, search for "etc.tar.bz2" in the 'usual places' (is that better > than "any device" ? ;-) ) Yes that's more wording ;-) -- MfG / Regards Friedrich Lobenstock ____________________________________________________________________ Friedrich Lobenstock Linux Services Lobenstock URL: http://www.lsl.at/ Email: fl...@fl... ____________________________________________________________________ |