Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD
On 25/02/2015, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 February 2015 06:00:58 Bret Busby wrote:
>> Why does the Debian standard installation iso image, not include an
>> "Abort installation" option (at each screen, although, even, a single
>> instantiation, on the primary menu, would help, by rebooting the
>> system into that menu, to do it, if that is the only way to access
>> that option), that would enable ejection of the removable media with
>> the iso image, instead of making this so difficult, to extract the
>> removable media with the iso image?
>
> If someone just wants to abort the installation, why not just turn the PC
> off
> and use a paperclip to remove the CD?
>
Should that be necessary?
And, no, that did not occur to me - I believe that I have not
previously, used that method to remove an optical disk (either CD or
DVD) from a computer. I do not remember being aware of that method,
before your suggestion.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
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Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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