Bugzilla – Bug 148375
Installation proposed to install to external usb-hd
Last modified: 2006-02-06 19:07:16 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.
*** Bug 148378 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is not a enhancement!!!
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.
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
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.