any clue why this would happen in disk_config / etch

[Michael Tautschnig]

> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Michael Tautschnig <mt at debian.org> wrote:
> >> > Ok, seems like FAI 3.2.8 is not fully compatible with etch :-); I guess you will
> >> > need to hack the disk-info script in your NFSROOT. I think it should suffice to
> >> > look at the code of disk-info and do the reverse of what the comment in line 17
> >> > says, that is:
> >> >
> >> > - throw away line 18
> >> > - put [ `cat /sys/block/$device/removable` -eq 1 ] && isdisk=0
> >> >  back in place
> >>
> >> ok i did it.  I have run the script from the command line, I got no
> >> output.  Should that work?
> >> I don't know where '$device' is going to be set.
> >>
> >
> > $device is set in the while loop; probably the contents of
> > /sys/block/sda/removable is 1 then ... I remember some discussion about that
> > adaptec stuff. Well, you can definitely just hack things and always set isdisk
> > to 1 if $device = sda.
> 
> how about if i just set isdisk to 1 no matter what?
> 
> # set isdisk to 1 no matter what happens
> isdisk=1
>

I guess it could happen to assume some inserted CD/DVD is a writable media, but
otherwise this should be fine.

Best,
Michael


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