Bug#564441: new version of the proposed patch

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

On Thursday 28 January 2010, Fred wrote:
> I've updated my patch to follow suggestions from F. Pop, and tested
> it at my level. Perhaps some enhancements could be added for a better
> usability.

Thanks Fred. I've taken a first look at the patch and will review it more 
thoroughly over the next days.

One issue is that you've hardcoded a few strings, which means not 
everything can be translated. I've already fixed it for the devices 
dialog, but for the ISO selection dialog it requires a bit more work.

> If you call the Debian Installer with default debconf level, it
> automatically scans all devices and select the first detected ISO
> (*but*, on the contrary of old iso-scan behaviour, it scans all
> available disks before to select first ISO). If we call Debian Installer
> with 'medium' level (debconf/priority=medium), we can choose which
> device to scan, then select an ISO among detected ones.

I'll see how it works out in practice, but maybe at high priority we should 
scan all devices without asking but, if more than one ISO was found, ask 
which ISO to use.

The devices should eventually probably be listed in a more user-friendly 
format, similar to what we do in partman.

Cheers,
FJP