Bug#381977: debian-installer: needs a check media boot option

[Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilbert@gmail.com>]

Package: debian-installer
Severity: wishlist

i was attempting to install etch, but the installer failed about halfway
through extracting packages.  i tried the install twice, and the
installer failed at the same point.  i finally concluded that the burn
was bad.  so i reburned the etch d-i disc, and the install went fine.
it would be very useful to have a checkmedia boot option to find out if
the disc is ok before attempting the install; especially since novice
users could interperet a failure like this as a failure of the installer
rather than the hardware.

thank you for your consideration.

mike

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)