Installation report, my new laptop

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 01:25:24PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Matt Zimmerman">
> > On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 12:56:13PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > > So, I'll file a bug about the hdparm stuff; do we need to nuke it, or
> > > just add extra checks?
> > 
> > At the very least, I'd say that we should continue even if it fails, but
> > my gut tells me that we should forget about it.  The benefits (small
> > performance increase) do not justify the risks (making installation
> > impossible).
> 
> And it looks like we get a massive boost out of the other optimisations
> anyway... Okay, I'll file asking that it be removed.

We can just change the default hdparm parameters to empty. That way, if
you want it there's still a magic boot parameter you can use to enable
it (cdrom-detect/cdrom_hdparm=<whatever>).

Doing that now.

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]