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Received: from mandrake.cen.ufl.edu (mandrake.cen.ufl.edu [128.227.180.15]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA29570 for <executor@nacm.com>; Sun, 5 Nov 1995 17:52:30 -0800 Received: by mandrake.cen.ufl.edu (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #5) Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk id m0tCHdZ-000CGcC; Sun, 5 Nov 95 21:50 EST Message-Id: <m0tCHdZ-000CGcC@mandrake.cen.ufl.edu> From: jnh@kzin.cen.ufl.edu (Jordan Hazen) Subject: Re: Checking floppy in E/L To: m@fly.net (Mike) Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 21:50:17 -0500 (EST) Cc: executor@nacm.com In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.951105160722.25179A-100000@gravity> from "Mike" at Nov 5, 95 04:12:09 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1092 Hello, > A small, but annoying feature on E/L occurs on my notebook, a NEC Versa S. > E/L runs better than I would expect on an sx33, but my trouble is that > the Versa S has a removable floppy. If I don't change my cmos settings > at boot time to no floppy, then executor hangs as it searches for the > nonexistent drive. Executor looks for the /dev/fd0 device upon startup, so you might want to put a wrapper script around it to remove or rename this special file from /dev when the drive isn't there (root permissions required, of course). Alternately, you could patch the executor binary to look for a different device, say /dev/Fd0 (capital F), and arrange to have a symlink from that to the real /dev/fd0 only when the floppy is attached. I did this with /dev/cdrom to keep that from being probed (-> /dev/cdRom). Back up your 'executor' file first, then go in with a hex editor ('she', 'beav', even 'emacs' will work under Linux if you're careful not to insert or delete characters). The string to change occurs just before "enter macdrives". happy kludging, :-) -- Jordan.