[Bootcd-user] RE: bootcd recognize CDROM drive

[SCHUMACHER,BERND (HP-Germany,ex1)]

Hi 

for this to work you could use initrd. Because I do not use initrd
personally I only try to make sure that initrd is working without any
special features (bootcdmkinitrd). 

But you could build a script which runs in initrd. This script would have to
test every possible CDROM Device for a special file which is only on a
bootcd. I think this is the way how knoppix works. So you could look at
knoppix for an example.

If anybody would build such a skript, we could include it in the Debian
Package bootcdmkinitrd.

Bernd

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olivier Le Cam [mailto:Olivier.LeCam@crdp.ac-versailles.fr] 
> Sent: Donnerstag, 11. Dezember 2003 14:48
> To: bernd.schumacher@hp.com
> Subject: bootcd
> 
> 
> Hi -
> 
> I currently work on a self-debian installer to help 
> professors who have 
> no linux experience to install a file server in their school.
> 
> I use for that bootcd, which is really a nice software, and I 
> thank you 
> for that.
> 
> However, I would like to get bootcd to be able to recognize 
> itself which 
> CDROM drive device it is mounted on, because most of the 
> professors are 
> completely stripped regarding to the "kernel panic" which 
> appears if the 
> CD device is not hdc. Do you know if it is possible to do 
> something for?
> 
> Thanks in anticipation for your help.
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Olivier Le Cam
> Data processing department of French national education
>