Jack Schwartz wrote: > Hi Sarah. > > On 07/31/09 10:33, Sarah Jelinek wrote: >> Hi Jack, >> >> I am a little late to this party, but I do have a question/comment >> which I believe have not been addressed in the current thread on this. >> >> -Use Case 2: >>> At boot time, user is presented with the "main menu": >>> 1. Run installer >>> 2. Install missing drivers >>> 3. Shell >>> 4. Reboot >>> >> So, in call cases is the user going to be presented with the 'install >> missing drivers' option? Or only if we have found drivers are missing >> at boot time? I am asking because having this option always there, >> implies to me anyway as a user, that I have missing drivers I need to >> install. Is there any way around having this option when there are >> not missing drivers? > When I talked about this with Frank, we decided to have this menu look > similar to the S10 install menu. > > I just booted S10 and see that it says "Apply driver updates", not > "Install missing drivers". I'll update my document with this change. > I think making this change will address your concerns about implying > (and not so subtly :) ) that drivers are missing when they may not be. > > To answer your question, though, we could implement something to show > the "Apply Driver Updates" menu selection conditionally. We could > potentially implement the text-mode DDU with a silent mode like we are > planning for the GUI-based DDU. This would scan devices like the DDU > does today, but in the background. The text installer could use this > information to determine whether or not to display the "Apply Driver > Updates" menu item. Not sure if this will take away needed > functionality though; if someone hot-plugged a PCI controller card > while the system was up, a new device could potentially show up after > the scan determined not to show "Apply Driver Updates". I suppose the > user could just reboot... > > I think from a user-convenience standpoint, always showing the menu > item, but having it say "Apply Driver Updates" is the best choice. > What do you think? > The menu item might also be "Install additional drivers." Sarah was correct that the text should be as clear as possible, but it doesn't need to be finalized in this spec.
Frank
