Install from hard drive fails with "no driver found" when trying to access the hard drive.
I have a factory original Dell Dimension XPS T450 with a Maxtor 9gb ide hard drive on primary controller, ide cdrom on secondary controller.
Timothy
On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 07:39, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, William Hooper wrote:
Robert P. J. Day said: [snip]
but all of that assumes you can get the software onto your machine in the first place. this suggests that, more than anything else, the installation procedure has to be flogged pretty hard before getting out the door to make sure it works.
Isn't testing the installation procedure the reason there are test releases? A failed test is no less of a test.
i'm not disagreeing. my point was that it was understandable that the inability to even *install* the beta software might explain the higher frustration level among some of the folks who have posted on the subject.
in addition, in a lot of cases, when the installation fails, the poor user is left wondering if it's something *they* did wrong, and they spend a lot of time trying again before they finally realize that it's not their fault.
one final point. traditionally, the whole testing cycle suggests that, as one gets closer and closer to the official release, beta releases are theoretically supposed to get more and more reliable. put another way, it's a bit unnerving to suddenly discover that something that worked just fine in test1 is broken in test2, *especially* something as critical and fundamental as installation.
anyway, i'm not ranting about this, just making some observations about why some of the previous posters on this topic might be just a bit edgy about it, that's all.
rday