Rename anaconda to cryptoconda?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 1 Dec 2012 14:31:51 -0500, 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.

Hmmm, you would have had to leave at the very first warning dialog where
you explicitly need to confirm that you're willing to be brave. ;-p

The user interface for reusing mount-points from existing installations
found on the storage device(s) isn't pretty. It's also not too obvious
that reused mount-points move from an old installation to the new one only
if they are to be reformatted. E.g. "Swap" and "Root", but other
mount-points stick to the old installation, even if that one doesn't have
a system Root anymore. And that with "Apply Changes" one touches the new
installation not the old/unfolded one.

At least the installer backend worked.

It could be interesting to read what documentation would say about these
installer screens. Imagine, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux manual had to
explain these screens.

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