Bug#701099: debian-cd: installer fails with two CD/DVD drives

[Andreas Stempfhuber <reportbug2013@afulinux.de>]

Hi Steve,

Am Donnerstag, 21. Februar 2013 schrieb Steve McIntyre:
> Control: reassign -1 cdrom-checker
> Control: severity -1 important
> 
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 03:58:36PM +0100, Andreas Stempfhuber wrote:
> >Package: debian-cd
> >Severity: critical
> >Tags: d-i
> >Justification: breaks the whole system
> 
> Dropping the severity and reassigning. This definitely isn't an issue
> in debian-cd at all (not sure about cdrom-checker either, but it's
> closer!), and it's not critical - plenty of people have used this code
> for their installations and you've found a simple workaround.
>
> Hopefully somebody else in the d-i team can find the exact problem
> area here, I'm not sure where to look.

I considered it as critical as it prevents people from installing Debian. I 
was fortunately lucky by using the workaround but finding it wasn't easy.

I was lucky because I could easily disable the second CD drive without 
uninstalling and opening the server. That's not the case when apt-setup 
selects by mistake the wrong built-in CD drive. It's also not the case when 
you do a remote installation via the virtual media capability of the KVM 
dongle and apt-setup selects in the middle of the installation by mistake the 
local CD drive as package source.

It would not be such a big issue if you would be able to continue the 
installation by selecting an internet mirror as package source, but 
unfortunately the installer does not provide you that option anymore if it 
fails at detecting the CD/DVD :-(

Thanks,

Andi