From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 16 03:59:08 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DB8D106566C; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 03:59:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pieter@degoeje.nl) Received: from mx.utwente.nl (mx2.utsp.utwente.nl [130.89.2.13]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3F648FC0C; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 03:59:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nox-laptop.student.utwente.nl (nox-laptop.student.utwente.nl [130.89.160.140]) by mx.utwente.nl (8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id p0G3x2ri013996; Sun, 16 Jan 2011 04:59:02 +0100 From: Pieter de Goeje To: Nathan Whitehorn Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 04:59:01 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <4D309563.1000404@freebsd.org> <201101150730.01010.pieter@degoeje.nl> <4D31C22B.8040906@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4D31C22B.8040906@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201101160459.01915.pieter@degoeje.nl> X-UTwente-MailScanner-Information: Scanned by MailScanner. Contact icts.servicedesk@utwente.nl for more information. X-UTwente-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UTwente-MailScanner-From: pieter@degoeje.nl X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDInstall: merging to HEAD X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Sysinstall Work List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 03:59:08 -0000 On Saturday 15 January 2011 16:50:03 Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > On 01/15/11 00:30, Pieter de Goeje wrote: > > 2) The Partition Editor's confirmation dialog has two options "Don't > > Save" and "Cancel"; it is unclear what the difference between the two is. > > AFAICT "Don't Save" really means "Cancel installation", and "Cancel" > > really means "Re-edit" (I'm sure there's a better word for that). > > How abort renaming "Don't Save" to "Abort?" Hmm, is there enough room for "Abort installation"? Just to remove any confusion :-) > > 4) The Complete dialog doesn't say that it will reboot after pressing OK > > and gives you no oppertunity to remove the media, so the user will boot > > straight back into the installer (depends on bios settings). > > The first issue is easy to fix. The second is a little tricky to do in > the context of booting from a live CD. You can't remove the media while > the kernel is running because it's the root filesystem. I'm not sure > what the best solution is. I am thinking out loud here, but wouldn't it be possible to hand off the task of showing the final "Complete" dialog (or the stuff that needs to be done afterwards) to a process which is run from an md device? It could then unmount root and possibly even eject the CD. > > > 5) Pressing cancel in the NIC setup dialog doesn't cancel the > > installation but continues it without configuring a NIC. Perhaps this > > could be clarified in the dialog text. > > There are several steps like this. The add user, services, keymap, > tzsetup, and root password screens can also be canceled (by design). I'm > not sure what the optimal way to signal this to the user is. Beat Gaetzi > has suggested renaming cancel buttons on cancelable parts of the > installation to "Skip". The dialog title text could have have (optional) > appended to it or something. The way I had tried to do it is that things > that cannot be safely canceled (mostly) don't have cancel buttons right > now. "Skip" instead of "Cancel" sounds like an excellent idea. -- Pieter de Goeje