Bug#251031: businesscard cds should be ejectable
retitle 251031 Should support removal of installation medium
A very long time ago Joey Hess wrote:
> In an install from businesscard CD, the CD is not used after the udebs
> are loaded from it, and could be used for installing another machine in
> parallell. But it's mounted, and locked. It would be neat if somehow
> d-i knew the CD would not be needed anymore, and ejected it after
> loading the udebs.
This is not really true (anymore?). In theory an anna-install can still be
run at any time, and currently we do so in quite a few places (mainly
partman).
Other complication is that in several places the contents of /cdrom/.disk/
is checked and that is currently assumed to be available.
It could still be done, but then we'd need to implement some kind of media
check and prompt to reload before actually accessing the install medium.
Having this would simplify for example multi-CD support.
Cheers,
FJP
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