Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyro.eu.org> (2014-09-10): > On 10/09/14 19:56, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > That also means people being too “Enter happy” might overwrite their > > installation medium. > > OTOH if our best guess was correct (e.g. most installs from a real > CD/DVD? PXE installs?), an enter-happy person may not be happy at > all, because they get to a confusing "now enter a device path" prompt > with almost no good information. > > I think on balance, it is a good change, but some further work on > detecting install media to avoid overwriting it, would make it better. > (There is already code in d-i to detect install media, if that could > work here, those devices perhaps could be bumped to the end of this > list?). Spoiler alert: no, that code is not sufficient. Especially in the install from USB case. We've had this problem for several releases already… Why do you think we're now asking by default? Because we want the installation process to be a pain? No, because guessing doesn't work well enough. (BTW: You're supposed to be using reply-all on the BTS.) Mraw, KiBi.
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