reassign 510666 iso-scan
thanks
Quoting Aenoch Lynn (aenoch_lynn@yahoo.com):
I wanted to try the USB install of lenny, so from a working lenny
installation on my machine (which I intended to overwrite) I put the
installer on a 2 GB USB thumb drive using:
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/hd-media/boot.img.gz
and then downloaded debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso onto my hard
drive
and then copied it onto on the same partition on the USB drive.
Booting the installer went fine, but instead of finding the iso
image on
the USB drive, the installer found the iso image on the hard drive
and
mounted it. I was unable to wipe the root partition, /dev/hda1, as
the
installer refused saying the device was in use (or something
similar). I
had to boot back into the old system, remove the iso image from the
drive, and boot back into the USB installer. After this the installer
ran without problems.
I recommend the installer prefer to use an iso image on the same
device
from which the installer itself is running.
I'm not entirely sure that the installer has an easy way to "know"
what device it is run from once it is booted.
Still, reassigning this bug report to the right D-I package. Thanks
for your suggestion.