CD/DVD ejecting after sysinstall

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Sun Aug 22 11:42:39 UTC 2010


Randi Harper <sektie at gmail.com> writes:
> Rui Paulo <rpaulo at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > 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.
> That's a judgement call, not an absolute. I think what we are doing
> isn't a problem for 99.999% of use cases.

On the rare occasions where I use sysinstall, I usually find that prompt
annoying...  but I almost broke a CD drive once by ejecting the tray
with the enclosure's dust cover half closed.

DES
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