Slightly unusual test install case for f14 beta on a laptop

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 22:46 +0100, mike cloaked wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 16:16 +0100, mike cloaked wrote:
> >
> >> This presumes the key is already formatted with a boot flag set. The
> >> documentation is just not clear enough to be easily understandable
> >> even by experienced Fedora users (I have been with Fedora since its
> >> inception!)
> >
> > And you don't know the umount command? really? holy crap, we're doing
> > better than I thought. :)
> 
> OK cynicism aside, the point is that there are different ways to
> "disconnect" a usbkey from being a mounted icon on the desktop -
> umount is one option, and right clicking the desktop icon and
> selecting from the available choices is another - to a novice there
> should be no reason to decide between one or other way to do it - but
> one way works and another does not - that is not satisfactory for an
> advanced linux distribution like Fedora and it should be made to work
> as well as possible and as easily as possible for users to install it,
> whichever install methods is used, surely?
> 
> In this situation either the system should be "fixed" so that all
> options for removing the mounted partition should work when then
> writing the key to prepare it as an install medium - or the
> documentation should make it clear that one way works but another does
> not!
> 
> Anyway I understand that the documentation for F14 is being
> re-written- but also there appears to be an anaconda bug for this
> install case which makes wrong defaults for writing the MBR. Hopefully
> that will be fixed at some point also (this has actually been a bug
> since at least f11/f12 timeframe when I first came across the issue.

AIUI this is mostly a documentation issue, because the behaviour of
nautilus is intentional (it's meant to truly 'eject' the device, i.e.,
completely remove it as far as the kernel is concerned).
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