Re: slashdotted
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 11:41:00AM -0500, Kyle Girard wrote:
> I installed debian on a friend's machine using a daily build the other
> day and one thing that he noticed was that on a couple of screens there
> were two options to move forward with the install which lead to a bit of
> confusion. Using this dialog for example:
>
> http://www.thiesen.org/d-i/partition-3.png
>
> which option do you choose "Finish partitioning and write change to
> disk" or "<Continue>"
>
> I didn't have an answer as to why there were both.... so I am asking you
> guys why are there two options? Could the <Continue> option be disabled
> until you've finished this step or renamed to something more a little
> more descriptive?
I was very confused by this too. <Continue> seemed to do something
different, and the dialog box suggested that it was going to do
something destructive like autopartition the whole device. I backed out
and chose "Finish ..." and that seemed like more the right thing.
Definitely confusing, though.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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