Bug#515695: installation-reports: USB Install fails when too many ISOs are found

2009-02-17 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Frans Pop elen...@planet.nl writes: On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Rohan Dhruva wrote: My /dev/hda5 is a vfat partition having many (upwards of 15) ISOs. They are all present in a single directory in the root, so debian installer did check them. Possibly there are ways to improve this

Bug#515695: installation-reports: USB Install fails when too many ISOs are found

2009-02-16 Thread Rohan Dhruva
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal -- Package-specific info: Boot method: USB Pen Drive Image version: http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images Date: Date and time of the install Machine: Acer TravelMate 3260 Partitions: df -Tl will do; the

Bug#515695: installation-reports: USB Install fails when too many ISOs are found

2009-02-16 Thread Otavio Salvador
reassign 515695 linux-2.6 retitle 515695 too small maximum loop devices clone 515695 -1 reassign -1 iso-scan retitle -1 should warn user if more then 8 isos are available thanks Rohan Dhruva rohandhr...@gmail.com writes: [...] My /dev/hda5 is a vfat partition having many (upwards of 15) ISOs.

Bug#515695: installation-reports: USB Install fails when too many ISOs are found

2009-02-16 Thread Frans Pop
reassign 515695 iso-scan thanks On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Rohan Dhruva wrote: Comments/Problems: My /dev/hda5 is a vfat partition having many (upwards of 15) ISOs. They are all present in a single directory in the root, so debian installer did check them. That is an extremely unusual

Bug#515695: installation-reports: USB Install fails when too many ISOs are found

2009-02-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Otavio Salvador wrote: As you can see at this snip of kernel source, if not specified you can only create up to 8 loop devices. So we can only deal with 8 isos. How exactly is this the issue? Why should we need more than 1 loop device? We don't need all these ISOs