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--- Begin Message ---Package: base-config Version: 2.53.10 Severity: minor I start by downloading ISOs through BitTorrent containing Debian GNU/Linux "Sarge" 3.1r2 on DVD. I download both DVD #1 and DVD #2 and burn them onto new DVD-Rs. I take those DVDs to a different computer. Specifically, a slot-loading iMac G3 (http://support.apple.com/specs/imac/iMac_Slot_Loading.html). The machine contains 768MB of RAM and a 120GB hard drive. No other operating system will exist on the machine. I turn the computer on and insert the first DVD. It boots and I am in debian-installer. I go through the process of selecting a language, performing hardware configuration, and installing the base system. Everything performs as it should and debian-installer then states it's time to restart into my new Debian system. So, debian-installer ejects the first DVD I inserted and the computer reboots into base-config. I begin the process of using base-config. The hardware clock is set to GMT. The time zone is set to Pacific. The root password is set. A new user is created. It then prompts me for where I want to get the rest of Debian from. I set the archive access method for apt to "CD-ROM" so that I can use my newly burned DVDs. I insert DVD #1 and debian-installer leaves the previously blue background for an all-black one saying: Scanning CD, this will take a minute... After completion, it states: If you have another Debian CD (for example, the second CD in a two CD set), you should insert it now. Scan another CD? (Yes/No) Since I have the second DVD, I'd like that to be scanned as well. However: I can't complete base-config beyond this point, and that's where this bug report comes in: Most (but not all) "New World" Apple hardware does not have a manual eject button on the CD/DVD drive. When the hardware was designed, Apple intended the drives to be used exclusively with the software-based eject method (such as the "eject" command from the command line) so (while in base-config) there's no way to remove the DVD I previously inserted and have it scan the DVD. base-config only provides a "yes/no" option in the "Scan another CD?" dialog box and there's no method of ejecting the DVD. If I select "yes" in the "Scan another CD?" dialog box, the software simply re-scans the same DVD that's still there (apparently not realizing it's the same DVD it just scanned.) The obvious work around for me is to set the method to "HTTP" instead of "CD-ROM" while in the "Scan another CD?" dialog box, but not being able to scan all of the DVDs does make base-config somewhat unusable because I can't complete a CD or DVD-based installation. I have several different suggestions on how to modify base-config to work around the hardware design of Apple's machines: 1. Once base-config has finished scanning the DVD, automatically eject it before displaying the "Scan another CD?" dialog box. (This is similar to how the DVD is ejected after base-installer has finished but before the first reboot when base-config takes over.) 2. Don't automatically eject the DVD after scanning, but do eject it automatically if "yes" is selected in the "scan another CD?" dialog box (indicating there's another disk to scan.) This is similar to how the DVD is ejected after base-installer has run but before the first reboot when base-config takes over. 3. Add a third option in the "Scan another CD?" dialog box to eject the DVD.
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