F13 install problem (/dev/fd0 error)

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 05/29/2010 08:15 AM, Dale J. Chatham wrote:
> OK, I was an idiot.  I took about 20 minutes yesterday looking for a way 
> to disable the floppy.  Today, it jumped out at me.
>
> Doh!
>
> I might suggest that timing out the attempt to query a floppy and moving 
> on might be a wise for the developers to do :)
>   

We already attempt to do that.  It just takes a long time on occasions
because of broken hardware.  There is a discussion in the kernel list on
how best to avoid it. 

Rahul