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Re: need a name for install-from-hd image



Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:

> Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > Could you merge iso-scan and cd-detect? cd-detect should detect
> > harddisks with the contents of the cd on it and from that its not ar
> > to look for loopback images.
> > 
> > It doesn't realy make sense to look for one but not the other.
> 
> It doesn't seem particularly useful to me, and it will make the language
> both have to use more generic and so more confusing. iso-scan is only
> intended for installs direct from hard drives, this has nothing to do
> with CD's from a user's perspective.

Its both a local install medium.

I would keep the menu saying "detect CDrom" and only explain in the
install docs that one can also dump the iso as file onto the
harddisk. Thats nothing you need to know during install.

MfG
        Goswin



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