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Re: [PATCH] Create floppy emulation boot CD with grub-mkimage


From: Robert Millan
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Create floppy emulation boot CD with grub-mkimage
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 00:14:11 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 07:45:48PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
>    --overlay=DIR           overlay directory DIR in the memdisk image
>    --pkglibdir=DIR         use images from directory DIR instead of 
> ${pkglibdir}
>    --grub-mkimage=FILE     use FILE as grub-mkimage
> -  --image-type=TYPE       select floppy or cdrom (default)
> +  --image-type=TYPE       select floppy, floppycd, or cdrom (default)

I find this user interface confusing.  How does one know what "floppycd" means?

I think it'd be much easier to understand if this was a separate option,
something like:

--image-type=TYPE       select floppy or cdrom (default)
--some-option           explain what it does

-- 
Robert Millan

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