The autorun welcome in windows

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: The autorun welcome in windows
started by: trigggl

Posted by trigggl on Feb. 19 2004,15:06

I personally would like to see it go away. I put the disc in while the computer is on in windows, so that I can reboot and run the live cd. The autorun always gets in the way of me shutting down. This is a great distro that needs no introduction.

Posted by libretto on Feb. 19 2004,16:25

If you hold down the shift key whilst the cd is loading, this should stop any auto-run programs runing from the cd then you can reboot.

Posted by trigggl on Feb. 19 2004,18:35

It's not something I do often enough to remember. I'd prefer to just not have the need, but others may want it there. I figured I'd take a poll rather than ask for it to be removed. Of course, if we don't get many votes, it won't be any clearer what the "majority" would prefer. Then again, it boils down to John's decision regardless what the majority want.

Posted by John on Feb. 19 2004,18:41

Well, as of 0.6 it's more than just a welcome, it's a good 'getting started' mini-howto.

Posted by Modrak on Feb. 22 2004,19:21

Quote (John @ Feb. 19 2004,18:41)

Well, as of 0.6 it's more than just a welcome, it's a good 'getting started' mini-howto.

He means that crapy autorun.bat under Windowze

Posted by hasty on Feb. 22 2004,20:02

The autoruns' no big deal.

Do like the 'getting started' mini-howto as it does a very good job.

This distros getting very slick :cool:

Posted by chuck54 on Feb. 23 2004,03:17

I like that the 'mini-howto' comes up when you start dsl. However i do not like in the slightest that it comes up when im using windows.
Is it the same thing? I didnt actually read it.

Saying all of that, you can just turn off auto-run in windows if you dont like these things.

Posted by hasty on Feb. 23 2004,18:14

Exactly....bloody curse

Posted by Modrak on Feb. 23 2004,20:36

Quote (chuck54 @ Feb. 23 2004,03:17)

Saying all of that, you can just turn off auto-run in windows if you dont like these things.

Just stop using WindBlows :cool:

Posted by Rapidweather on Feb. 24 2004,01:07

Good place to put the version number, i.e. 0.5.3.1, 6.0, etc.

Posted by sjborch on Feb. 24 2004,06:06

Yes, an excellent place to put the version number.
Perhaps a link to < http://www.damnsmalllinux.org > might also help.

Posted by hasty on Feb. 28 2004,12:44

Great idea.

Just went through a dozen unlabelled cds trying to figure out which was the latest version :laugh:

I know I should label things straight away, but life interferes and my desk is a mess (I like it that way).

Posted by Rapidweather on Feb. 28 2004,21:02

I have found that the cd's I have burned for 0.6.1 seem to take almost two minutes to boot up in the cdrom drive. I don't think this happened before. After I burned the cd, I was still in windows, and when I opened the drive where the new Damnsmall cd was, it autoran, so I knew I had something. I could, of course, explore the contents of the cd in Windows. Then when I tried to run it by itself, I ran into the strange almost two minute wait for things to perk up. I almost thought I had a bad cd, or cd drive, so I switched machines, and the same thing happened, although not as much time to wait.
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So, the autorun has it's uses, as a confirm that the cd is "good", I suppose.
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Too many new users are going to need that instruction, to set the bios to boot off the cd drive.
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We ought to keep it. Those of us using DSL on a daily basis don't see it anyway.
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Posted by marcosg on Mar. 06 2004,12:02

I think that the web displayed by the autorun should have a real how-to, for newbies.
Thanks

Posted by davide on Mar. 08 2004,14:46

It should stay. It helps unexperienced people and does not delay too much when reboot from WinBlows. If it will have a samll how-to, then it will be even more usefull.
moreover, I think it does not take much room...

Posted by PhrozenFear on Mar. 10 2004,03:28

It's actually not that bad of an idea - the program itself is very small - a couple of kb - and it's helpful to the winblowz people to realize why it isn't working.

Though me personally, I don't like it. But in general, I think it should be left.

Posted by pvdvyve on Mar. 23 2004,23:07

For those who don't want it: boot with a diskette(floppy)! :blues: