On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 11:56, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Maybe I got the wrong impression, but why do we do all this detection > and _force_ the user to use that Cd?
The idea was to reduce the number of questions that the user gets asked. Debian's installer has long been notorious for forcing you to navigate through countless dialogue boxes, usually just accepting the defaults at every stage. This is tedious and potentially confusing for users. How about a compromise. If an attractive-looking CD is detected in the drive, pop up a single dialogue box at the beginning along the lines of "I see you have a Debian CD-ROM. Do you want to use this as the source medium for all the installation files?". If the user answers yes, behave as if they had booted with the "cdrom" argument and suppress all the media-selection menus; if they answer no, prompt as usual. Also, I am now coming round to the point of view that maybe this decision should be decoupled from the issue of whether the CD is "official" or not. Debian-cd folk, how about adding a new file called ".disk/installable" or some such, whose presence signals that boot-floppies should treat the CD as an install disk. That way people who are creating their own customised disks can make the decision for themselves rather than having to modify dbootstrap, second-guess its heuristics, or ask their users to supply boot arguments. p. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]