Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:03:05 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Randi Harper <sektie@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@freebsd.org>, Jim Riggs <freebsd-lists@christianserving.org> Subject: Re: CD/DVD ejecting after sysinstall Message-ID: <AANLkTinv6q3y3fKMEMhcJqD%2BPKXWZF1typvnJd-6dC6V@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <C938352E-F8F9-4C55-B1E0-7A9C8F48C5A5@gmail.com> References: <9674C06D-DC2D-40C3-B523-E397C9ADC37B@christianserving.org> <641B7F47-CD12-415D-A808-861F4E85F60C@FreeBSD.org> <C938352E-F8F9-4C55-B1E0-7A9C8F48C5A5@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Randi Harper <sektie@gmail.com> wrote: > On Aug 20, 2010, at 14:21, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > > > You are correct. We should not be ejecting the CD without a prompt. If > the commit is reverted, it should be explicitly noted in the code so that we > don't do this mistake again. > > > > Regards, > > -- > > Rui Paulo > > > > > > That's a judgement call, not an absolute. I think what we are doing isn't a > problem for 99.999% of use cases. > I think 99.999% is a bit high, as couple times during my FreeBSD usage this would have been a problem for me although is not currently an issue. I don't really know what problem this solves as it is unnecessary in 100% of use cases as far as I can tell. It's not that I don't appreciate the thought behind it, but this will be problem for others I imagine as well. It's a VERY big inconvenience sometimes to visit a datacenter when you thought you had a rock solid remote setup in place. In defense of the current behavior, you can get basically the same behavior by setting up a PXE boot system, but that is not always desirable or convenient. Also all KVM's don't give the option to remotely load ISO's. -- Adam Vande More
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