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Date:      Mon, 27 Jun 2005 17:01:43 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Patch for sysinstall wrong-disc problem
Message-ID:  <200506271701.45080.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050618173102.R73598@carver.gumbysoft.com>
References:  <20050618173102.R73598@carver.gumbysoft.com>

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On Saturday 18 June 2005 08:33 pm, Doug White wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> I've come up with a patch that fixes sysinstall prompting for the wrong CD
> when trying to install packages from non-CDROM media.  Patch is here:
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~dwhite/patches/index.c.20050618.patch
>
> This makes the "This is disc#0; I need disc#1" type message go away by
> checking if the install media is a CDROM first.  Tested with an install
> over NFS, but it shouldn't make a difference what install media as long as
> its not a CD.
>
> I'll commit this shortly if there are no objections.

Just a suggestion: it might be a shorter patch with no need to reindent a 
bunch of code if you change the patch to just add

	if (mediaDevice->type != DEVICE_TYPE_CDROM)
		return (DITEM_FAILURE);

before the while loop.

-- 
John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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