Iagree with Tom on this point. I too have experience installing Linux
distros. The screen shot that Tom displays is in fact a disaster of
design. It does not help the user set up mount points. In fact, it
entirely misses the point...pun intended. I work in IT and I wouldn't
want the other techs in my group to work with this sort of user interface.
Do simplify it.
Tom is making a valid criticism here. He shouldn't have to use a
specific code phrase or set of code phrases to bring attention to the
screen.
Having said that, I agree with Stephen that Tom should not be installing
Fedora 18 on a production or other machine that cannot be risked. Tom
should use a totally different, "test" computer. That way if Fedora 18
or anything else experimental trashes the system, no harm is done.
Probably Tom is a little more emotional than he needs to be because he
fears for his production machine.
Tom, it is a given in the world of software testing that you don't
install the software under test on a system that you really need. (Smile.)
Bob
On 12/1/12 2:31 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
In many many years of installing all kinds of linux distros,
I have never encountered a more baffling and cryptic screen
than the one I ran into when I made the attempt to install
Fedora 18 Beta from the DVD image:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=882542
This has got to be the result of a group of maniacs
giving each other feedback about how great this design is
when they all know what everything means because they
were there when it grew.
Coming along after the fact and seeing it for the first
time, I can't tell what on earth it is trying to convey,
and I'm certainly not going to randomly try things when
I'm potentially destroying the disks on my primary system
if I interpret some part of this cryptic nonsense
incorrectly.
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