Handling complete failure in the installer

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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Colin Watson wrote on 27/11/09 14:12:
>...
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 09:33:16PM +0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
>> 
>> Evan Dandrea wrote on 12/11/09 14:18:
>...
>>>    <s>The installation medium could be faulty.  It is reccomended
>>>    that you run the "Check CD for defects" option you saw when
>>>    booting this CD/DVD. This may rule out the possibility of a bad
>>>    CD burn.
>> 
>> With a button to click to do that, if possible.
> 
> Quite often, what's happened here is that the kernel encountered a
> read error, and then squashfs decided to fall over in a messy heap.
> The result is usually a downward spiral in quite short order; there's
> generally enough in cache to be able to display an error message, I
> think, but in many cases we aren't going to be able to launch an
> application.
> 
> The most practical option here is probably a button to cause an
> immediate reboot (after which we've told them what to select).
>...

Yes, that's what I meant -- a "Restart" button, not a button that tries
to launch a standalone CD check.

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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