Bug 115776

Summary:	Installation needs ability to umount/mount CD
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Bryan Headley <bwheadley>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Michael Andres <ma>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	andreas.hanke
Version:	Preview 3	Keywords:	Install
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	SUSE Other
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Found By:	Beta-Customer	Services Priority:
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Description Bryan Headley 2005-09-08 01:28:21 UTC

Often, when I have a media problem, it is transient (e.g., not a problem with
the CD, a problem with the drive.) For me, what works is to umount to CD, eject
the media, re-insert and re-mount. The problem is, I often forget where the CD
gets mounted to...

Along those lines, if an error occurs during CD read/install, you can only
retry/ignore/abort. Retry doesn't work, because the CD drive has an error state
that won't flush until I open/close the drive door, as well as umount/mount the
drive. Ignore is not useful, as the media is not readable at that stage, and
Aborting is no better than shutting off the system at that point.

Along those lines, we need a "Reseat" option, that umounts the drive, does an
eject, then prompts the user to reseat/reinsert the CD (at which point it tries
to mount again)

Comment 1 Lukas Ocilka 2005-09-08 06:48:07 UTC

Michael, would you like to fix hardware problems during installation?

Comment 2 Stefan Hundhammer 2005-09-08 13:09:23 UTC

AFAIK we can't do that at that stage - large parts of the inst-sys are running 
from CD. This is what keeps the memory requirements for the boxed product 
(SuSE Linux) way below the memory requirements of SLES. SLES copies a lot more 
things to the RAM disk to be able to change CDs at that stage - because SLES 
needs that feature. 
 
For the boxed product OTOH that would mean that a lot of machines could no 
longer be installed because of the increased memory requirements. For a 
business product that is normally used in a business environment this may be 
acceptable, but for the SuSE box it is certainly not. Many users are already 
complaining about the memory requirements.

Comment 3 Michael Andres 2006-08-08 15:23:54 UTC

Wontfix; see comment #2