When trying to use an update disk on a laptop where you can't have the CD and floppy drives connected at the same time loading the updates works (replacing the cd-rom drive with the floppy drive when the dialog comes up), but switching back the kernel/installer get very confused and end up just rebooting the system. For a possible fix in future releases, maybe look for errors reading the CD after loading floppies, and give a dialog giving the option to retry the previous operation or just rebooting. In any case, this bug will not be a problem unless the installer on the CD is broken...
The kernel really doesn't support flipping drives in laptop's well. Michael, I expect you to call this a WONTFIX, but I thought I'd give you the chance ;-)
Nah, the kernel is fine with this, the problem is with the installer trying to access the cd-rom before I have managed to plug it back in :) [root@pcitpdp17 linux]# mount /dev/cdrom mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only [root@pcitpdp17 linux]# ls /mnt/cdrom/ COPYING README RPM-GPG-KEY SRPMS TRANS.TBL <hotswap> [root@pcitpdp17 linux]# mount /dev/fd0 [root@pcitpdp17 linux]# ls /mnt/floppy fstab.py image.py lost+found [root@pcitpdp17 linux]# umount /mnt/floppy <hotswap> [root@pcitpdp17 linux]# ls /mnt/cdrom/ COPYING README RPM-GPG-KEY SRPMS TRANS.TBL [root@pcitpdp17 linux]# No errors in dmesg either.
Yeah, ewt, pp is right, this isn't my problem. Tag, you're it.
Oh, shit. Hmmm, I don't know quite what to do about this. Doesn't it time out and let you try again?
Oh, ick. I see what you mean now. The CD is actually *mounted* when you unplug it. This is really hard to get right (methinks the kernel's retry-after-failure should be able to handle this better though) in userspace.