Osamu Aoki wrote: > Proposed ERRATA: > ---------- > In some CDROM drives such as the ones on the older Dell laptop PCs, > second detection may be successful. If you fail in mounting CD, you > simply run detect CDROM drive again from the menu. If reading CD fails > with installation log in vt4 indicating: > > .... anna[4147]: /cdrom/dists//Release > .... anna[4147]: : No such file or directory > > then, you need to go to console and run "umount /cdrom" before running > to detect CDROM drive from the menu.
We have plenty of time to fix cdrom-detect before rc2 without resorting to ugly errata like that. I'd rather turn off DMA for all CDs than have that errata, personally. > +elif [ ! -e "/cdrom/dists/$suite/Release" ]; then > + log "No such file '/cdrom/dists/$suite/Release'. Is the cdrom OK?" > + fail > +fi Couldn't it retry the mount if the Release file was not found, rather than immediatly failing? -- see shy jo
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