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- 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.
-
-