Comment 29 for bug 234185

Hi, I'm struggling with booting Ubuntu 8.10 Beta (Alternate) from USBdisk which I created via UNetbootin 282.

I have read throu this tread and have a proposl that might sove your problem with multiple detected cdroms. I vote for scanning all media (cd-drives aswell as usb-devices) and if more than one installationmedia is found, ask the user what media to use! I don't like it when things get to automated and hidden from the user.

In use-cases where more than one installation-media is found, the user have probably good knowledge about the medias found and is capable of choosing the correct one.

Another use-case, which I am part of, is the ability to have two or three iso-files on a large USB-stick, say for example "ubuntu_8.10_alternate.iso", "debian_lenny.iso" and "ubuntu_eee_8.10.iso" and during bootup or in cdrom-detect I would like to chose the proper iso-file for installation depending where i am installing at the moment.
For this to work cdrom-detect needs to search for *.iso in all medias (usb-disks mostly) and loop-mount what it find as a virtual cd.

Thats my two cents
// Anders