Rename anaconda to cryptoconda?

[Bob Cochran]

Iagree with Tom on this point. I too have experience installing Linux 
distros. The screen shot that Tom displays is in fact a disaster of 
design. It does not help the user set up mount points. In fact, it 
entirely misses the point...pun intended. I work in IT and I wouldn't 
want the other techs in my group to work with this sort of user interface.

Do simplify it.

Tom is making a valid criticism here. He shouldn't have to use a 
specific code phrase or set of code phrases to bring attention to the 
screen.

Having said that, I agree with Stephen that Tom should not be installing 
Fedora 18 on a production or other machine that cannot be risked. Tom 
should use a totally different, "test" computer. That way if Fedora 18 
or anything else experimental trashes the system, no harm is done. 
Probably Tom is a little more emotional than he needs to be because he 
fears for his production machine.

Tom, it is a given in the world of software testing that you don't 
install the software under test on a system that you really need. (Smile.)

Bob



On 12/1/12 2:31 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> In many many years of installing all kinds of linux distros,
> I have never encountered a more baffling and cryptic screen
> than the one I ran into when I made the attempt to install
> Fedora 18 Beta from the DVD image:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=882542
>
> This has got to be the result of a group of maniacs
> giving each other feedback about how great this design is
> when they all know what everything means because they
> were there when it grew.
>
> Coming along after the fact and seeing it for the first
> time, I can't tell what on earth it is trying to convey,
> and I'm certainly not going to randomly try things when
> I'm potentially destroying the disks on my primary system
> if I interpret some part of this cryptic nonsense
> incorrectly.