Bug#688695: installation-reports: install a success, but there were misleading/noninformative navigation messages for text installer
On 2012-09-24 22:34+0100 Miguel Figueiredo wrote:
Hi,
[...]
Start screen says "Press ENTER to boot or TAB to edit a menu entry"
That last verb is nonsensical. Why would you want to "edit" a menu
entry? I think what is meant here is navigate (as opposed to edit)
menus. However, I am not sure because the tab key did nothing! I
actually navigated to the advance options using the arrow key (not the
tab key) and then entered that menu with ENTER (contrary to the above
message which claims that will boot).
to add/edit boot parameters.
More details on these parameters on
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/ch05s03.html.
Then it should say something like
"Use arrow key to move between menu items"
first, and from what you have said about boot parameters it
appears that for most of those menu items it should _also_ say
"Press ENTER to boot or TAB to edit boot parameters"
but that secondary message should change to
"Press ENTER to enter the advanced options menu"
when you are on that particular choice in the menu.
[...]
* "Detect and mount CD-ROM" is misleading when installing from a USB stick
(as I was). Even the actual successful detection message claimed my
USB stick was a CD-ROM. This overall menu item should read instead
something like "Detect and mount installation medium (CD-ROM, USB-stick,
etc.)
* Same issue with "Load installer components from CD"
It's a CD-ROM image, not a CD-ROM.
Fair enough, but the point is the installer should refer to "CD-ROM
image on USB drive" when that is appropriate rather than the above
messages explicitly assuming that CD-ROM image is located on an actual
CD drive. For experts this doesn't matter, but that wrong assumption
is just confusing to newbies.
Alan
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