where is /etc/driveprm

Bruce Hill · 10-30-2003, 04:44 AM

When installing Debian GNU/Linux Woody 3.0 and you're given the choice to make a boot floppy, when you say yes and make the floppy, it tells you to add this line
drive0: deviation=-1600
to this file
/etc/driveprm
to stop some unnecessary measurement in the future; but that file is not in the /etc directory. In fact, it doesn't seem to exist anywhere.

Why does it say this and then the file isn't created? Is it important to do this?

NB: I used the Spell Check function, and can you believe it? It doesn't have Debian in the dictionary. So, maybe this is all just some DeadRat conspiracy

Bruce Hill · 11-09-2003, 01:35 PM

bump

Kurt M. Weber · 11-09-2003, 02:18 PM

If it's not created, then apparently you need to create it yourself and place that line in the file (assuming you want to stop some unnecessary measurement in the future, of course).