On Sun, 2026-07-12 at 14:42 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote: > Kevin Locke <[email protected]> wrote (Sun, 12 Jul 2026 06:04:11 -0600): >> Excluding the installation media from partitioning sounds like a great >> idea to me. I think it would reduce confusion, especially for new >> users, reduce the risk of breakage due to installing to the wrong >> drive/partition, and reduce the mental burden a little for most users. > > Just to make sure: > for a default installation this is no problem. > If you perform a normal installation (I mean without preseeding), you > would get an error message, that no hard drives were found, and if > you want to provide driver modules etc. to support additional drives. > > Kevin: can you confirm this?
If the installer[1] is booted from an optical drive, the "No disk drive was detected" error is shown.[2] However, if the installer is booted from a USB stick,[3] the installer disk is shown as the only choice in partman. If it is selected, either the "[...] the selected disk or free space is too small [...]" (if the USB stick is ~2GiB or less) or the "unable to inform the kernel of the change" error after overwriting the installation media, as in the preseed use case. Cheers, Kevin [1]: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-cd/debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso [2]: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 1G -cdrom debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso [3]: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 1G -drive if=none,id=diiso,format=raw,file=debian-testing-amd64-netinst.iso -device qemu-xhci,id=xhci -device usb-storage,bus=xhci.0,drive=diiso,removable=true
