On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 10:18:00PM +0100, Justin B Rye wrote: >Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Ben Hutchings wrote: >>> Holger Wansing wrote: >>>> #: ../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. > >I don't follow your logic. If this dialogue might be talking about a >thumbdrive, that sounds to me like a valid reason to want to say >something general like > > "The device does not contain a useful installation image." >or > "No useful installation image found on detected media." > >Okay, the message may be coming from something specifically named >"cdrom-detect", but users don't know that, do they?
That's not the point I was making, though. At the moment they'll get the "detecting CD" (etc.) messages, even if they're using a USB flash drive. That's all. Switching to "installation disk" for all cases is clear enough, and I firmly that it's the normal idiom in English. Can we just get on and do this, please? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "C++ ate my sanity" -- Jon Rabone
