Although I am in favor of minimal questions during an install, I recently ran into this exact problem.  I sent my dad an Ubuntu CD set, but the install CD was pitted.  Of course, we didn't notice this until partway through the first installation stage. This left his computer in an unuseable state, and over the phone, I wasn't exactly comfortable with walking him through the repair process as he's not terribly computer literate. Perhaps another boot option, such as installcheck which performs the check first.   My dad won't care if the install takes awhile, he just cares that it works.  This way I could have used this instead of the default install and avoided this.  Lakin <div>On 8/19/05, Matt Zimmerman <<a href="mailto:mdz@ubuntu.com">mdz@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 08:09:19AM +0800, Jerome Gotangco wrote: > On 8/20/05, Matt Zimmerman <<a href="mailto:mdz@ubuntu.com">mdz@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: > > > We have the integrity check, but it takes a very long time to run and so it > > isn't done by default. > > > > MacOS X does run their integrity check by default, but then, far fewer users > > ever see it. > > How about asking the user at the start before installing? That way > they have the option to know. I've seen it done in RHEL (although it > takes a long time too). Because that would force every user to answer an additional question on every install. -- - mdz -- ubuntu-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel">http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel </a> </blockquote></div>