Re: bugs 64500 and 64823

[Sven L. <lu...@dp...>]

On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 02:59:20AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Sven LUTHER <lu...@dp...> writes:
> 
> > Is there somethign special involved when dbootstrap installs from a CD ? how
> > can we make dbootstrap install think it is installing from a CD when we are on
> > apus ?
> 
> Have it pass the 'cdrom' boot argument is the easiest way.

Err, ...

how do i do that ?

for information, we launch the install process from a bootloader, some variant
of the amiboot used by m68k/amiga. The option of it are the name of the
kernel, the name of the root image and the usual kernel options. 

> There's a check in dbootstrap but I don't think that's working
> quite, at least, it didn't seem to work properly on i386.

Well, i installed potato on a i386 box from a cd, and it worked in the way i
would like it to behave.

Friendly,

Sven Luther