Floppy Support

[Terry Lambert]

Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> Or use modules..
> The vast majority of drivers are loadable as modules. It would be feasible to
> standardise the PCI ID tables of drivers and then generate a list from it
> which you can use to load modules for cards you find.

...loading them from some media for which the BIOS is capable
of causing the loader to pre-load it using BIOS calls, or for
which the kernel can load it only if there is a driver for
that media statically compiled into the kernel, or for which a
driver has been loaded via BIOS calls by the loader before the
kernel is started.

Q:	I have a CDROM on controller XXX, how do I install?

A:	Load the driver for controller XXX from the CDROM.

Q:	If I could access the CDROM without the !@#!$*! driver,
	I wouldn't need to *LOAD* the driver!

A:	Oh.


Still a "catch-22".

-- Terry