[virt-tools-list] [virt-manager PATCH] installer: Prefer "cdrom" over "floppy"

[Peter Crowther]

On Fri, 7 Jun 2019 at 11:18, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 12:00:56PM +0200, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote:
> > Instead of using "floppy" as the way to perform unattended installations
> > for Windoes, let's prefer using "cdrom" instead.
>
> Aren't there versions of windows which /only/ support "floppy", which
> would require us to preferentially use "cdrom" but fallback to "floppy"
> for older versions ?
>

Not for many, many years.  Even Windows 2000 enabled you to burn a CD with
a winnt.sif answer file on it; I've not checked further back.  How far back
do we wish to support?

Cheers,

- Peter
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