Re: [RULE] Boot-floppy detect.

[M. Fioretti]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 02:13:20 at 02:13:20AM -0500, Fratoni Michael 
(address@hidden) wrote:
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> On Tuesday 21 January 2003 01:45 pm, Vegard Munthe wrote:
> > months, but I have around $100 to spend on getting it done. :) We
> > receive about 200 PCs per month, and those collectiing them are
> > computer-illiterates, i.e. this floppy is imperative for successfull
> > registration of the equipment. Is there anyone here who knows of a good
> 
> Yours for the asking, just let me know and I'll make it available. The 
> problem I see with a boot floppy is size. Detect doesn't build against 
> 
> You'd need about 800k of space available (share and sbin, above). However, 
> there are probably plenty of ways it could still be made useful. Let me 
> know if you're interested. 

I have never heard of detect before, and am really sleepy tonight, so
maybe is a stupid idea, but couldn't this "hw detection toolkit" stay
in two floppies? Would it be acceptable? Something like:

Mr volunteer, please insert the floppy with the blue label and power on
(that disk contains Tomrtboot stuff, but the volunteer will not knows,
it's just the "first/blue floppy")

That boot image, well, boots, moves itself in RAM, and prints on the screen:
"Yo, Mr volunteer. Please extract me, insert the yellow label
floppy, and press Enter when done"

Yellow floppy is inserted, detect is loaded with its database, looks
around and says: Mr volunteer, please insert a blank floppy so I can
record everything I found.

Does it make sense?
 
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