From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: anaconda shouldn't even ask about creating a boot disk when there's no floppy/zip/ls100 in the machine. Answering "yes" could ruin a newbie's day. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install RHL. 2.Answer yes to create boot disk when you don't have a drive. 3.Sit in amazement as the install hangs ad nauseum. Actual Results: The system will hang. Expected Results: anaconda shouldn't even ask. Additional info: If I were a n00b, I'd be really disgusted that I'd gone through all that package selection only to see my install hang. Since I'm not a n00b but just plain old st00pid, I worked around this with deft use of <ctrl-alt-f something or another> and a well-placed kill -9. Maybe by 8.1 I won't be able to shoot myself in the foot anymore...
Unfortunately, you can't really tell with any degree of certainty that there's *not* a floppy drive connected on an x86 machine. Even on machines without a drive, the controller usually shows up and masquerades that a floppy is present. We'll try to make it more clear, though
Understood. Quote from linux/kernel/i386/i8259.c: * Careful.. Not only is IRQ13 unreliable, but it is also * leads to races. IBM designers who came up with it should * be shot. Now, if there were just some way to kill off an errant request to create a boot disk that's user-friendly, we'd be better off than we are now...
We skip asking if we can't detect a floppy with kudzu now.
Wonderful - thank you. Got a lot of machines now w/o floppies.