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Bug#265636: Idea for Dell CDROM detect issue



Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Proposed ERRATA:
> ----------
> In some CDROM drives such as the ones on the older Dell laptop PCs,
> second detection may be successful.  If you fail in mounting CD, you
> simply run detect CDROM drive again from the menu.  If reading CD fails
> with installation log in vt4 indicating:
> 
>  .... anna[4147]: /cdrom/dists//Release
>  .... anna[4147]: : No such file or directory
> 
> then, you need to go to console and run "umount /cdrom"  before running
> to detect CDROM drive from the menu.

We have plenty of time to fix cdrom-detect before rc2 without resorting
to ugly errata like that. I'd rather turn off DMA for all CDs than have
that errata, personally.

> +elif [ ! -e "/cdrom/dists/$suite/Release" ]; then
> +  log "No such file '/cdrom/dists/$suite/Release'. Is the cdrom OK?"
> +  fail
> +fi

Couldn't it retry the mount if the Release file was not found, rather
than immediatly failing?

-- 
see shy jo

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