On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 12:32:59PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 04:19:14PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > This is true, but I don't think it's a good reason not to implement a > > mostly-reliable heuristic. > > > > If there are multiple disks, there are usually going to be just 2 of > > them, one of which contains the installer. In any installer build > > other than netboot, it will look for its own disk in order to load > > udebs. Once it has done that, it can determine that the other disk is > > the one to install on. That's a pretty good heuristic. > > I think more than one disk in the machine isn't that unusual. Is there any reason why the following method wouldn't be an improvement?: 1) get a list of disks 2) identify the disk used by the installer 3) exclude the disk found at #2 4) present modified list as target disks for installation 5) unless in expert mode, where a user could use one partition of a disk as the installation source and another partition as the installation target. I'm not sure how important #5 is, but maybe some users want to be able to do this? Cheers, Nicholas
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