Bug#123948: can someone test the patch?
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 11:56, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> Maybe I got the wrong impression, but why do we do all this detection
> and _force_ the user to use that Cd?
The idea was to reduce the number of questions that the user gets
asked. Debian's installer has long been notorious for forcing you to
navigate through countless dialogue boxes, usually just accepting the
defaults at every stage. This is tedious and potentially confusing for
users.
How about a compromise. If an attractive-looking CD is detected in the
drive, pop up a single dialogue box at the beginning along the lines of
"I see you have a Debian CD-ROM. Do you want to use this as the source
medium for all the installation files?". If the user answers yes,
behave as if they had booted with the "cdrom" argument and suppress all
the media-selection menus; if they answer no, prompt as usual.
Also, I am now coming round to the point of view that maybe this
decision should be decoupled from the issue of whether the CD is
"official" or not. Debian-cd folk, how about adding a new file called
".disk/installable" or some such, whose presence signals that
boot-floppies should treat the CD as an install disk. That way people
who are creating their own customised disks can make the decision for
themselves rather than having to modify dbootstrap, second-guess its
heuristics, or ask their users to supply boot arguments.
p.
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