Bug 148375

Summary:	Installation proposed to install to external usb-hd
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Danny Al-Gaaf <dalgaaf>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Thomas Fehr <fehr>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Danny Al-Gaaf 2006-02-06 13:21:03 UTC

I tried to install Beta3 on a laptop with a plugged in external USB-harddisk. The installation dialog proposed to install the new installation to the external HD instead of the internal harddisk. This should IMO not happen. Installation to external HD should be init by user and not by YaST. The default behavior should be install to internal HD.

Comment 1 Danny Al-Gaaf 2006-02-06 13:48:03 UTC

*** Bug 148378 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Danny Al-Gaaf 2006-02-06 13:48:32 UTC

This is not a enhancement!!!

Comment 3 Thomas Fehr 2006-02-06 13:59:11 UTC

The proposal is not differentiate between external and internal disks, since
the fact that a disk is external or internal is not provided by hwinfo. 
Therefore ycp code has no chance to act accordingly.

The proposal can easily be changed to fit the users needs if YaST2 picked the
wrong disk, so I see no real problem here. If one has more than one disk, the
probability that the proposal does not use the disk a user wished is alwys high.

If you really want this to be implemented, please create a feature request 
in FATE. For 10.1 it is much too late since we are way over feature freeze.

Comment 4 Danny Al-Gaaf 2006-02-06 18:54:19 UTC

Why should it be not possible to find out if a HD is internal or external. hwinfo already use HAL and you can check via hal on which bus the harddisk based (usb/firewire/ide).

Hey, and on a laptop the user want in 99.99% of the cases the user want to install on internal HD

Comment 5 Thomas Fehr 2006-02-06 19:07:16 UTC

What does the bus-system have to do with the fact if a disk is called
"external" or "internal". This depends on the lrngth of the cable.
Sooner or later there might be pluggable HDs in extension bays for
laptops. Current c´t describes laptops with an internal (but pluggable)
optical drive, would you call this internal or external?

So the bus is certainly not a reliably information source for this property.

What is with normal SCSI, iSCSI, SCSI devices attached to high end 
controllers (e.g. qlogic). In all these cases, the disks are not seldom 
attached externally.

Anyway I am happy to honour such a flag as soon as it is provided by
hwinfo.

BTW: the proposal is just that, a proposal. If you have more than one drive
the probability you suggest what the user wants is 50% at max.