Bugzilla – Bug 115776
Installation needs ability to umount/mount CD
Last modified: 2006-08-08 15:23:54 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)
Michael, would you like to fix hardware problems during installation?
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.
Wontfix; see comment #2