Re: Proposal: drop "Test installation media" from live media

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On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 2:06 PM Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 10:37:01AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > Let's just go ahead and get people started faster.
> >
> > Could we maybe just bump it down to the 'troubleshooting' menu or
> > whatever it's labelled there and have it not be the default, rather
> > than remove it entirely?
>
> Sure, that seems okay too. In doing that, I suggest we change from:
>
>     _S_tart Fedora-Worksation-Live 33
>     Test this _m_edia & start Fedora-Workstation-Live 33
>
>     Troubleshooting
>
> to
>
>     _1_. Start Fedora Workstation Live 33
>     _2_. Troubleshooting options...
>
> ...where previously S and m are a slightly different color, which is Secret
> DOS Application UI Code for "if you wanted, you could press this letter
> instead of using the arrow keys" -- let's use numbers instead, which both
> make it more obvious that this is menu of options and are logical easy
> things to press.
>
> The troubleshooting menu currently has help text which appears for some of
> the options. We could add some friendly text like:
>
> "Press Enter to start a live environment which you can experiment with
>  without making any permanent changes, or use to easily install Fedora
>  Workstation to your hard drive."
>
> I'd also like to reduce the timeout from 60 seconds to 15 or something, but
> I won't fight anyone on that.
>

This would probably be easier if we dropped isolinux and used grub2
for BIOS ISO boot just like we do for UEFI ISO boot.



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