Bug#588058: "poll" for missing install devices

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 04:14:57PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Would it be possible, to offer (in such a case) a retry button or so?

debconf has no facility for adding extra buttons.

> btw: Debconf gives me e.g. the following:
> [ ] /dev/disk/by-id/ata-HDT722525DLA380_VDB41BT4CA1GYC (250059 MB, HDT722525DLA380)
> [ ] - /dev/sda1 (100002 MB, /) [ ] /dev/disk/by-id/ata-HDT722525DLA380_VDK41BT4CEAXME (250059 MB, HDT722525DLA380)
> [ ] /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HDT725025VLAT80_VF1100R1CJ583B (250059 MB, Hitachi_HDT725025VLAT80)
> [ ] /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3750640AS_5QD03J2N (750156 MB, ST3750640AS)
> 
> Is that "- /dev/sda1" intended to be there?

Yes - in fact none of the others are supposed to be shown as
/dev/disk/by-id/ paths!  It's supposed to resolve them all with
'readlink -f' before display, on the basis that even though by-id is
better for storage most people will be more familiar with traditional
device names.

What does 'ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/' print?

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]