On 2018-02-09 13:50, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> [02-09-18 07:27]:
On 2018-02-09 01:18, Felix Miata wrote:
Carlos E. R. composed on 2018-02-09 00:43 (UTC+0100):
No, the installation system did. Not the installed system. The kernel and image took an awful time to load, and once it was running, it insisted on checking the floppy perhaps a hundred times at every step (well, not really a hundred times). Yes, I do have a real floppy drive in this machine...
Include installation option
BrokenModules=floppy
to prevent that annoyance.
But you see, I do have a floppy, I want the system to be aware of it. I alse heard the DVD drive being probed as many times. The probing was fast, move the head a bit and spin the motor; but it was done too many times.
this is understood, but you were concerned about the time involved and remarked that the install trying to access or setup the floppy was consuming a great amount of time. also, the install was only a test for an availble or not feature. all besides the fact that you could install the floppy drive after all was said and done, even if more was said than done.
No, you are confused. I talked about three issues. I never said the floppy being an impediment for a quick test, as that is done in a virtual machine, and there I typically disable the floppy on the VM BIOS. The second issue is that in my desktop machine, the kernel loading (before it probes for anything) took minutes. Several minutes. It was astonishing. This also happens in my virtual machines, IIRC. And the third issue, in that desktop machine the system was probing the floppy (and the DVD drive) many times during the procedure. Issues two and three are not related at all with the quick test. Sorry if I have expressed myself in a way that increased the confusion.
you have voiced much concern about features being lost, but seem much determined to present impediments to finding ways to ascertain the features are lost.
You missed the point about me saying that I did use an actual hour, perhaps two, trying to find that missing feature. I failed to find it. Knurpht finally understood and told me where to find it :-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)