On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 03:57:00PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >On Tue, 2019-09-10 at 20:21 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: >[...] >> Again another thought: >> >> When we talk about an "installation disk": >> Is it clear enough, that we mean the disk where we install *from* ? >> This could likely be mixed up with the disk where we install *to* , right? > >I think this is a standard computing term and should not be confusing >for native English speakers. There may be some risk of confusion for >non-native speakers.
ACK. It's common English idiom to talk about "installation disks" as the source of the data you're installing. >> Think about these strings: >> >> >> #. Type: text >> #. Description >> #. :sl1: >> #: ../cdrom-detect.templates:2001 >> -msgid "Detecting hardware to find CD-ROM drives" >> +msgid "Detecting hardware to find installation drives" >> msgstr "" >> >> #. Type: error >> #. Description >> #. :sl2: >> #: ../cdrom-detect.templates:14001 >> -msgid "The CD-ROM drive contains a CD which cannot be used for >> installation." >> +msgid "The detected installation drive cannot be used for installation." >> msgstr "" >[...] > >I don't know exactly what cdrom-detect does, but it may still be >specific to optical drives. In that case you could use more specific >terms here, e.g. "The optical disc drive contains a disc which cannot >be used for installation." > >Otherwise a suitable new text could be something like "The detected >drive does not contain a usable installation disk". cdrom-detect (yes, overly-specific name) is still the piece in the initramfs that looks for the rest of d-i, so I still think just changing to "installation disk(s)" here is fine. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "I've only once written 'SQL is my bitch' in a comment. But that code is in use on a military site..." -- Simon Booth
