Re: Change templates: CD -> installation medium - proposal #2

On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 03:57:00PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>On Tue, 2019-09-10 at 20:21 +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:
>[...]
>> Again another thought:
>> 
>> When we talk about an "installation disk": 
>> Is it clear enough, that we mean the disk where we install *from* ?
>> This could likely be mixed up with the disk where we install *to* , right?
>
>I think this is a standard computing term and should not be confusing
>for native English speakers.  There may be some risk of confusion for
>non-native speakers.

ACK. It's common English idiom to talk about "installation disks" as
the source of the data you're installing.

>> Think about these strings:
>> 
>> 
>>  #. Type: text
>>  #. Description
>>  #. :sl1:
>>  #: ../cdrom-detect.templates:2001
>> -msgid "Detecting hardware to find CD-ROM drives"
>> +msgid "Detecting hardware to find installation drives"
>>  msgstr ""
>> 
>>  #. Type: error
>>  #. Description
>>  #. :sl2:
>>  #: ../cdrom-detect.templates:14001
>> -msgid "The CD-ROM drive contains a CD which cannot be used for installation."
>> +msgid "The detected installation drive cannot be used for installation."
>>  msgstr ""
>[...]
>
>I don't know exactly what cdrom-detect does, but it may still be
>specific to optical drives.  In that case you could use more specific
>terms here, e.g. "The optical disc drive contains a disc which cannot
>be used for installation."
>
>Otherwise a suitable new text could be something like "The detected
>drive does not contain a usable installation disk".

cdrom-detect (yes, overly-specific name) is still the piece in the
initramfs that looks for the rest of d-i, so I still think just
changing to "installation disk(s)" here is fine.