Hi, Pascal Hambourg <[email protected]> wrote (Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:38:31 +0200): > On 19/07/2026 at 21:04, Kevin Locke wrote: > > > > I can confirm that the ISO from Salsa CI does not produce the > > "Partition(s) 1 on /dev/sda have been written, but [...]" error > > message. However, it does still overwrite the USB stick. Is that > > expected? > > Yes. The netboot installer included in mini.iso images does not mount a > local installation media, it loads everything from a network mirror. To > simulate the cdrom installer included in netinst and DVD images, you > need to mount the installation media by hand. > > Note: when a isohybrid image is written to a USB drive /dev/sdX, the > cdrom installer mounts the partition /dev/sdX1 instead of the entire > device /dev/sdX (because it scans USB partitions before entire disks, do > not ask me why). So you also need to test with a mounted partition. > > > One other idea we haven't discussed, which might be helpful to > > distinguish the use cases you outlined from missing disks, would be to > > prompt the user to modify the installer media. For example: > > I also had this idea as a last resort. > > > "No disks were detected other than the one containing this installer. > > Installing to this disk will modify the installer media. Continue?" > Prompting only when there is no other disk would break the use case > where there is another disk and the user still wants to install on the > disk containing installation media. IMO it should not matter whether > there are other disks or not.
I would be unhappy with adding one more question to all installations/ all installation media. Can we manage to display this new message only on netboot image installations? Holger -- Holger Wansing <[email protected]> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
