"Robert Millan [ackstorm]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:33:47AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> "Robert Millan [ackstorm]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 09:44:31AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes:
>> >>
>> >> > On Mar 06, "Robert Millan [ackstorm]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> I urge you to reconsider severity of this problem. There's another
>> >> >> situation
>> >> >> that makes it much worse:
>> >> > The correct solution is to make d-i use labels in fstab and to find the
>> >> > root file system. udev has not much to do with this.
>> >>
>> >> I think it's too late for that kind of change on d-i side. This "right
>> >> solution" looks to be post-Etch material to me.
>> >
>> > Then we should remove the USB images from the release. They're utterly
>> > broken
>> > and only work on old hardware. It'd be a shame if we label this as
>> > "stable".
>>
>> There's no workaround for the issue?
>
> With USB, you can't just boot a rescue system and repair a broken install
> from there, because /dev/sda will still be your USB drive.
>
> Of course, there are lots of hacks you can do to workaround that, but if
> we go this way, why bother using d-i anyway ? I could just boot from USB
> and run debootstrap by hand.
>
> If we remove USB sticks from etch, then at least people will know they're
> broken and switch to CDs (or use the dailies).
I don't know how invasive those changes might be. AFAIK Ubuntu already
does it (Colin?) and wouldn't be too hard to pick the changes from
them but we would also need RM and Frans approval :(
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