Bug 104012

Summary:	Reboots before asking for more disks
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	James Ots <novellbugzilla>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Stefan Hundhammer <shundhammer>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Found By:	Other	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Description James Ots 2005-08-10 23:37:51 UTC

During installation it says how many discs are going to be used, and says the 
next disc will be needed in so many minutes. So I'm watching the bar go down 
on the right (which would be nice if it was labelled so you know what the 
horizontal lines on it mean), and it gets to the end of the first disc and 
reboots. Which makes one think the installation has gone wrong, because it 
said it was going to use four discs and it only used one. It'd be helpful if 
the reboot message said that the rest of the discs will be used after 
rebooting.

Comment 1 Klaus Kämpf 2005-08-11 06:30:20 UTC

Agreed. 
We'll try to install from all CDs before reboot. See bug #103800. 
 
But if we need to reboot after CD1, this should be shown somehow. 
 
-> Stefan

Comment 2 Stefan Hundhammer 2005-08-16 11:05:14 UTC

The SlideShow UI has no way of knowing anything about any reboots, and I don't 
think it would be a good idea to add that information to that dialog anyway. 
 
We have been doing that for 5+ years now, and so far nobody else seemed to be 
confused by that. The "reboot" popup is explicit enough. 
 
We surely cannot be everybody's darling, so we have to make the average user 
our priority target, and the average user seems to like the way it is a lot 
more than any more text that would tend to add confusion rather than reduce 
it. 
 
Also, that kind of information would have to go to the help text - which is 
not visibile by default upon decisions made by product management and our 
usability experts.

Comment 3 Ivan Rancati 2005-08-19 11:07:35 UTC

I'm not 100% positive, but I thought that 9.2 and 9.3 would boot from the hard
drive after the CD1 copy has finished

10.0 Beta2 boots from CD1 after copying the CD1 files are finished, so if the
user is not looking at the screen in the crucial 10 seconds installation has to
start again.

So, as an enhancement (maybe for future versions) I's suggest either
- more than 10 seconds for "system will reboot"
- ejecting the media if possible
- booting from HD 

I would agree not to add more text, though.
Thanks for a great Beta2, btw

Comment 4 Stefan Hundhammer 2005-08-19 11:23:42 UTC