Frans Pop wrote:
> So I've dropped the documentation patch and committed the others, with a
> few cosmetic changes.
Thank-you.
> Hmmm. If that is really the only use case then maybe that should just be
> documented in the changelog and in comments in appropriate places.
Okay, I'll expand the
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On Tuesday 25 August 2009, Chris Lamb wrote:
> To frame my thoughts here, this is to support d-i when invoked from
> Debian Live USB sticks - as Debian Live knows the target media when
> building the USB image, "try-usb=true" is appended to all generated
> "usb with d-i"
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Bug #498143 [cdrom-detect] Please detect non-ISO block devices masquerading as
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Frans Pop wrote:
> It would be much nicer if we could somehow display a dialog offering the
> alternative is mounting a CD fails.
To frame my thoughts here, this is to support d-i when invoked from Debian
Live USB sticks - as Debian Live knows the target media when building the
USB image, "try-us
On Thursday 20 August 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> How are users supposed to know about this option?
>
> I don't know how often this trick is needed, but I doubt users who need
> it will be able to find it. It would be much nicer if we could somehow
> display a dialog offering the alternative is mounti
On Wednesday 19 August 2009, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Updated patch series attached. The previous one did not apply anymore.
I have one fairly big reservation against this patch:
> +Template: cdrom-detect/try-usb
> +Type: boolean
> +Description: for internal use only
> + Preseed this to true to try to
Chris Lamb wrote:
> Attached.
Updated patch series attached. The previous one did not apply anymore.
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Chris Lamb wrote:
> Anyway, if there is no objection to the approach I'll prepare a patch
> and post it back here.
Attached.
- apt-setup is lacking a versioned dependency on cdrom-detect >= 1.32,
but I can't see a way of doing that.
- Templates say stuff like "looking from CD-ROM", "loadin
Chris Lamb wrote:
> However, on [Debian Live] USB/HDD images, cdrom-detect naturally fails
> to locate the partition on which the d-i components reside, as it is
> neither an ISO9660 image nor contained on a block device returned by
> `list-devices cd` or `list-devices maybe-usb-floppy`.
Okay, wh
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:49:21PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> > How far has this been tested?
>
> I've tested it locally with removal USB keys, both in Qemu and on real
> machines.
Testing if usual CD installations still work is essential before getting
such patch applied a
Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> How far has this been tested?
I've tested it locally with removal USB keys, both in Qemu and on real
machines.
> Among other questions, how good is this interacting with support for CD
> sets?
I have not tested on a real machine with real CD media yet. Did you have any
pa
On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 03:31:13PM +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:
> The attached patch rectifies this by additionally detecting vfat and ext disk
> partitions masquerading as Debian CDs. We only concern ourselves with these
> filesystem types as well as restricting the search to partitions as live-
> hel
Package: cdrom-detect
Version: 1.29
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi,
In Debian Live, integration with the Debian Installer works perfectly with
ISO images; cdrom-detect mounts the live image containing the installer
components and proceeds with the installation.
However, on USB/HDD images, cdr
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