On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 22:46 +0100, mike cloaked wrote: > 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. AIUI this is mostly a documentation issue, because the behaviour of nautilus is intentional (it's meant to truly 'eject' the device, i.e., completely remove it as far as the kernel is concerned). -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
