Bug#1141839: installation-reports: preseed overwrites installer USB stick if no other drives are detected

Holger Wansing <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:36:09 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.boot
Message-ID <B181F45F-48E7-4C93-B88D-5634171FAC89__39597.5957553432$1783913846$gmane$org@mailbox.org>
Hi,

Am 13. Juli 2026 00:18:53 MESZ schrieb Kevin Locke <[email protected]>:
>If the installer[1] is booted from an optical drive, the "No disk
>drive was detected" error is shown.[2]  However, if the installer is
>booted from a USB stick,[3] the installer disk is shown as the only
>choice in partman.  

Ah, yes. I forgot that.
Typically I do testing things with qemu and boot the ISO with -cdrom=
So that's the "boot from optical drive" szenario.


Holger



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