reassign 571958 iso-scan retitle 571958 Shouldn't try to locate ISO images on unsupported file systems thanks
Quoting Costin (costi...@gmail.com): > I can't believe this bug has gone one whole year unnoticed and > unfixed... and still counting. Welcome to free software development where nobody is paid for doing the work, where you can't blame anybody for not caring about your pet feature..;and where, sometimes, you're best served by yourself... This bug was left sleeping among the gazillion other bug reports reported vaguely against debian-installer. Apparently, at the time it was reported, nobody in the team cared enough to have a look at it, or comment. Then, believe it or not, nobody is regularly coming back on all reported bugs to check if some have been "forgotten". So, thanks for volunteering doing this, it will be deeply appreciated by the team. Back to the bug, I believe it could belong to the iso-scan component....but I am very balanced about it: I'm not sure we should load ntfs of xfs modules at that moment of the installation just to support what is after all a corner case (installing from an NTFS-formatted USB device). Adding an extra module adds more memory constraints, increases the size of D-I initrd....which is something we are very conservative about. So, from such interpretation, I believe that iso-scan code should just be fixed to *not attempt to locate ISO images on unsupported (at that moment of the install) file systems.. Alternatively, what Ferenc mentioned is true. If, prior to the iso-scan execution, the ntfs modules are loaded (which is possible during expert installs), then what you want is probably possible. So, after all, this might be considered a non-bug. What you want is possible, but you have to use an expert install (but we're in a corner case, remember..:-)).
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