On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 1:08 PM Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Right now, when you start Fedora live media to install Workstation or KDE or
> etc., you get an ugly text prompt which defaults to doing a media test
> (although it's not actually even clear from the highlighting that that's the
> default).
>
> I think since burning spinning optical media is no longer the normal way to
> do this, we should drop this and just go straight to booting (unless of
> course a key is hit to stop things and enter boot parameters).
>
> In my experience with USB sticks (and i've probably made over 500 of 'em in
> the last few years), the most likely failure modes are like this:
>
> 1) Doesn't even write properly.
> 2) Doesn't boot after you created it.
> 3) Fails hard and it's definitely done
> 4) Random transient errors
>
> The test media option doesn't actually help with any of these except maybe
> making #3 happen slightly sooner. With #4, it actually means that in some
> cases you'd be fine just doing the install and the test fails.
>
> Let's just go ahead and get people started faster.
>
I thought you could either bypass or cancel the installation media test.
> --
> Matthew Miller
> <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Fedora Project Leader
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