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Bug 3196 - install only mounts from fd0 for supp. disks
Summary: install only mounts from fd0 for supp. disks
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: installer
Version: 6.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matt Wilson
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-06-01 18:44 UTC by chris
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 1999-07-07 16:33:50 UTC
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Description chris 1999-06-01 18:44:53 UTC 
I have a new Winbook XL2 notebook which has a ATAPI LS-120
Superdisk floppy (120 MB and compatible with 1.44 MB).  It
does not have a traditional floppy drive (kernel bootup msg:
"floppy0: no floppy controllers found").

It can boot off the bootnet floppy fine, but if I want to do
an install that requires a supplemental disk (e.g., network
install that requires PCMCIA devices), install will ONLY
attempt to mount /dev/fd0, never /dev/hdd, which was the
original boot device.  A simple fix would be, upon failure
to mount fd0, to ask the user to mount from a list of
detected devices.
Comment 1 Jay Turner 1999-07-07 16:33:59 UTC 
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 106 ***
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