Colony 3, Test report

[Lakin Wecker]

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


On 8/19/05, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 08:09:19AM +0800, Jerome Gotangco wrote:
> > On 8/20/05, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> 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.
> 
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