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

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Alternate CD cdrom-detect.postinst does not consider USB flash drive/key. 
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