On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 16:16 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: > >> This presumes the key is already formatted with a boot flag set. The >> documentation is just not clear enough to be easily understandable >> even by experienced Fedora users (I have been with Fedora since its >> inception!) > > And you don't know the umount command? really? holy crap, we're doing > better than I thought. :) OK cynicism aside, the point is that there are different ways to "disconnect" a usbkey from being a mounted icon on the desktop - umount is one option, and right clicking the desktop icon and selecting from the available choices is another - to a novice there should be no reason to decide between one or other way to do it - but one way works and another does not - that is not satisfactory for an advanced linux distribution like Fedora and it should be made to work as well as possible and as easily as possible for users to install it, whichever install methods is used, surely? In this situation either the system should be "fixed" so that all options for removing the mounted partition should work when then writing the key to prepare it as an install medium - or the documentation should make it clear that one way works but another does not! Anyway I understand that the documentation for F14 is being re-written- but also there appears to be an anaconda bug for this install case which makes wrong defaults for writing the MBR. Hopefully that will be fixed at some point also (this has actually been a bug since at least f11/f12 timeframe when I first came across the issue. -- mike c -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
