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bug#47780: [installer] Trying to install to DVD leads to crash
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#47780: [installer] Trying to install to DVD leads to crash |
Date: |
Mon, 14 Jun 2021 14:32:04 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org> skribis:
>> Possible improvements are:
>>
>> 1. gracefully handling this error;
>> 2. filtering out read-only storage devices from the menu.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks to David's help[1], I realized that the non-filtering of the
> installation device was causing some of the (uuid->string #f) issues
> users were experimenting.
>
> With this commit: 154a4e046281c28e39b5016e965d3d937a2ea4a1, I improved
> the install device detection by removing the device with the default
> Guix System image ISO label.
Nice.
> Now this is fragile and won't work if the ISO label is modified like in
> your use-case. I cannot find another reliable way to detect the
> installation device in the "non-install-devices" procedure. Do you have
> any better idea?
Does Parted provide a way to tell whether a storage device is read-only?
That would be ideal.
Thanks,
Ludo’.