Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-21 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 22:49 -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 06/20/2013 10:05 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > So if I'm reading things right, no, langtable doesn't currently make > > any attempt to associate each Indian language with a territory any > > more specific than 'India', and as currentl

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-20 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/20/2013 10:05 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: So if I'm reading things right, no, langtable doesn't currently make any attempt to associate each Indian language with a territory any more specific than 'India', and as currently implemented, couldn't actually do this. Mike may well correct me if

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 21:52 -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 06/20/2013 09:40 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > To me that's just more illustration of the problem. Do things look > > better to an Indian who just wants to install in English anyway if we: > > > > a) default to English? > > b) default t

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-20 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/20/2013 09:40 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: To me that's just more illustration of the problem. Do things look better to an Indian who just wants to install in English anyway if we: a) default to English? b) default to an Indian language they don't speak at all? Obviously its globally easier

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 21:19 -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 06/20/2013 09:04 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > Frankly I'm not 100% convinced that it's a good idea to try and guess > > language even from a fairly reliable geolocation mechanism like ours. > > It's still not 100% reliable - people

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-20 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/20/2013 09:04 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: Frankly I'm not 100% convinced that it's a good idea to try and guess language even from a fairly reliable geolocation mechanism like ours. It's still not 100% reliable - people behind corporate VPNs can be routed through just about anywhere - and e

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-20 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/21/13 09:04, Adam Williamson wrote: > English is pretty > much the unofficial lingua franca of Tech In General, if nothing else, > everyone's pretty much resigned to it by now - but people (of whatever > nationality) are far more likely to find it problematic if it defaults > to a non-English

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 16:01 -0400, Peter Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 05:54:33PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 12:39 +1200, Gavin Flower wrote: > > > On 14/06/13 12:31, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 12:28 +1200, Gavin Flower wrote: >

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-20 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 20:05 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Adam Williamson > wrote: > Quite a lot of people have said they find the current layout a > bit > confusing, but then, we tried two other layouts before this > one and >

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-20 Thread Peter Jones
On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 05:54:33PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 12:39 +1200, Gavin Flower wrote: > > On 14/06/13 12:31, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 12:28 +1200, Gavin Flower wrote: > > > > > > > Well, I configured the wireless network prior to g

Re: consider people with poor vision, was Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...[consider people with poor vision

2013-06-15 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sat, 2013-06-15 at 12:07 +0300, moshe nahmias wrote: > I agree with Gavin, I have a poor vision because of Keratoconus and on > most cases it's not easy or comfortable for me to read things when > installing fedora. > > More important is that we should consider poor eyesight since we want > any

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2013-06-15 Thread Gavin Flower
On 15/06/13 16:22, Felix Miata wrote: On 2013-06-14 12:53 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed: [...] Among the many other complaints other people have raised about the installer, I don't recall one other person complaining about text being too small. Do you think people in the business of de

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-14 Thread Felix Miata
On 2013-06-14 12:53 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed: On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 15:40 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: Mount point among the input fields appears above everything except (the inexplicably present input field:) device name (duplicating the larger bolder device name above it to left). O

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-14 Thread Felix Miata
On 2013-06-14 12:53 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed: On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 15:40 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: Hardware, switching between a 15" 1024x768 LCD and a 19.8" visible CRT trying to discover a way to make everything legible. At the time I was trying to get a 1600x1200 screenshot of

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-14 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 15:40 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2013-06-14 09:57 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed: > > > On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 05:24 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > > it seems pretty clear to me what you should have done at > > the point of > > http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Fedora/anaconda19

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-14 Thread Felix Miata
On 2013-06-14 09:57 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed: On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 05:24 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: it seems pretty clear to me what you should have done at the point of http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Fedora/anaconda19tc3-06parts-0768.png : changed the 'File System' drop down Yup, now af

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-14 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 14:01 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2013-06-14 09:59 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed: > > > 'Available space' is *unpartitioned* space, not 'partitions that happen > > to be empty'. Anaconda isn't about to assume it can just go ahead and > > stick itself in any partition

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-14 Thread Felix Miata
On 2013-06-14 09:59 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed: 'Available space' is *unpartitioned* space, not 'partitions that happen to be empty'. Anaconda isn't about to assume it can just go ahead and stick itself in any partition which doesn't currently contain any data. That does not seem like a

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-14 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 05:24 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Fedora/anaconda19tc3-06parts-0768.png and no further > than being told insufficient space > http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Fedora/anaconda19tc3-11addfailure-1024.png & > http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/Fedora/anaconda19tc3-04partopti

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-14 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 05:24 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2013-06-13 15:42 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed: > > > All existing partitions are shown in the tree > > view on the left hand side of custom partitioning. You can select one > > and assign a mount point to it on the right hand side,

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 05:24:18 -0400 Felix Miata wrote: > Its unintuitive logic has me pretty well baffled. Me too. My preferred install technique these days is to install into a nice new virtual machine where it can't screw anything up, then guestmount and rsync the virtual machine image to the re

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-14 Thread Felix Miata
On 2013-06-13 15:42 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed: All existing partitions are shown in the tree view on the left hand side of custom partitioning. You can select one and assign a mount point to it on the right hand side, and choose whether or not to reformat it. Its unintuitive logic ha

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-13 Thread Gavin Flower
On 14/06/13 12:57, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/14/13 08:28, Gavin Flower wrote: Well, I configured the wireless network prior to get to the installation summary with all the spokes in the previous screen, and it correctly got the assigned host name & IPv4 address. So I asumed the network was up.

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-13 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jun 13, 2013, at 9:14 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > Always lovely when you setup a cool new thing and people tell you it > sucks and needs to be better. ;) It's a cool new thing that distinctly does not suck and probably doesn't need to better. I only said given the extreme precision, the acc

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-13 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jun 13, 2013, at 7:08 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > https://geoip.stg.fedoraproject.org/city How is this working? With a WiFi access point MAC address entered into Skyhook it has the location within +/- 20 feet from the actual location. But the lat/long from the URL above is about 1.5 miles off.

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/14/13 08:28, Gavin Flower wrote: > Well, I configured the wireless network prior to get to the installation > summary with all the spokes in the previous screen, and it correctly got the > assigned host name & IPv4 address. So I asumed the network was up. Also > from that point on, I did

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 12:39 +1200, Gavin Flower wrote: > On 14/06/13 12:31, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 12:28 +1200, Gavin Flower wrote: > > > > > Well, I configured the wireless network prior to get to the > > > installation summary with all the spokes in the previous scre

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 12:28 +1200, Gavin Flower wrote: > > > Well, I configured the wireless network prior to get to the > installation summary with all the spokes in the previous screen, and > it correctly got the assigned host name & IPv4 address. So I asumed > the network was up. Also from t

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/14/13 08:08, Gavin Flower wrote: > On 14/06/13 11:08, Ed Greshko wrote: >> Ahhh There certainly is the option to change... On the"Installation >> Summary" page there is a "Date & Time" option to change it >> >> Anyway, what do you get when you go to this URL (no trailing slashes) >

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-13 Thread Gavin Flower
On 14/06/13 11:08, Ed Greshko wrote: On 06/14/13 06:57, Gavin Flower wrote: On 14/06/13 10:43, Adam Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 10:23 +1200, Gavin Flower wrote: I think it would be a very good idea to be able to systematically check, & change settings if necessary - so some way of

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/14/13 07:14, Gavin Flower wrote: > I am using TC3, and my network is up. So, what do you get with https://geoip.stg.fedoraproject.org/city or https://geoip.stg.fedoraproject.org/city?ip=18.0.0.1Where you replace the IP address with your public IP address. -- The only thing wo

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 11:14 +1200, Gavin Flower wrote: > If you forget to go into the spoke, it just takes the default. Well, yeah, of course it does. That's not exactly a disaster; you can change it any time after install, after all. > You have to remember to check all the spokes. If you had

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-13 Thread Ed Greshko
On 06/14/13 06:57, Gavin Flower wrote: > On 14/06/13 10:43, Adam Williamson wrote: >> >> On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 10:23 +1200, Gavin Flower wrote: >>> >>> I think it would be a very good idea to be able to systematically check, & >>> change settings if necessary - so some way of it systematically pre

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 10:57 +1200, Gavin Flower wrote: > On 14/06/13 10:43, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 10:23 +1200, Gavin Flower wrote: > > > > > I think it would be a very good idea to be able to systematically > > > check, & change settings if necessary - so some way of

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Fri, 2013-06-14 at 10:23 +1200, Gavin Flower wrote: > > > I think it would be a very good idea to be able to systematically > check, & change settings if necessary - so some way of it > systematically presenting the spokes would be good (in this aspect, > the old way was better). > > I know I

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2013-06-13 at 15:16 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > With vintage Anaconda installers I was able to select existing > partitions and give them mount paths without reformatting, > or use an existing partition for a nre root or swap area. > > This doesn't seem possible with the

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-13 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 06/13/2013 03:23 PM, Gavin Flower wrote: On 14/06/13 09:40, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: On 12.06.2013 09:00, Adam Williamson wrote: On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 00:27 -0500, John Morris wrote: On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 19:09 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: You are 'Done' picking disks, though, and the

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-13 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
With vintage Anaconda installers I was able to select existing partitions and give them mount paths without reformatting, or use an existing partition for a nre root or swap area. This doesn't seem possible with the current Anaconda. I partially work around the problem by saving fstab entries ma

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-13 Thread Adam Williamson
On Thu, 2013-06-13 at 23:40 +0200, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote: > On 12.06.2013 09:00, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 00:27 -0500, John Morris wrote: > >> On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 19:09 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > >> > >>> You are 'Done' picking disks, though, and there's a big ch

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-13 Thread Mateusz Marzantowicz
On 12.06.2013 09:00, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 00:27 -0500, John Morris wrote: >> On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 19:09 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: >> >>> You are 'Done' picking disks, though, and there's a big chunk of text on >>> the screen saying "They will be left untouched until y

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-13 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jun 12, 2013, at 12:09 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 06:19 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: >> On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:25:29 -0700 >> Adam Williamson wrote: >> >>> It is very useful if you want to be absolutely sure that a given disk >>> will not be used at all >> >> But a opti

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 12:20 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:09:02 -0700 > Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > Actually, just calling it "Next" instead of "Done" would help a lot > > > to provide some hope that you might eventually get to select partitions > > > :-). > > > > Like

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:09:02 -0700 Adam Williamson wrote: > > Actually, just calling it "Next" instead of "Done" would help a lot > > to provide some hope that you might eventually get to select partitions > > :-). > > Like I said, that's exactly what it was labeled before, and people > didn't

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 06:19 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:25:29 -0700 > Adam Williamson wrote: > > > It is very useful if you want to be absolutely sure that a given disk > > will not be used at all > > But a option in the tree view to say "Protect this disk from any > change

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-12 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:25:29 -0700 Adam Williamson wrote: > It is very useful if you want to be absolutely sure that a given disk > will not be used at all But a option in the tree view to say "Protect this disk from any changes" would work as well, and also give you the opportunity to actually i

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-12 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 00:27 -0500, John Morris wrote: > On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 19:09 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > You are 'Done' picking disks, though, and there's a big chunk of text on > > the screen saying "They will be left untouched until you click on the > > main menu's "Begin Installa

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-11 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 06:27 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:09:47 -0700 > Adam Williamson wrote: > > > "They will be left untouched until you click on the > > main menu's "Begin Installation" button. > > Yea, but then what happens? You still have no idea. It ought to make it p

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-11 Thread Tom Horsley
On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:09:47 -0700 Adam Williamson wrote: > "They will be left untouched until you click on the > main menu's "Begin Installation" button. Yea, but then what happens? You still have no idea. > we tried two other layouts before this one and > people found both of those confusing t

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2013-06-11 at 08:01 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:43:35 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > > > > Quite a lot of people have said they find the current layout a bit > > > confusing, but then, we tried two other layouts before this one and > > > people fou

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-10 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:43:35 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote: > > Quite a lot of people have said they find the current layout a bit > > confusing, but then, we tried two other layouts before this one and > > people found both of those confusing too. At this point we are running > > out

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-10 Thread Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
On 06/10/2013 07:09 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 21:23 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: ...I'm still filled with trepidation when the only choice I appear to have is to click "Done" after selecting a disk to install on. I'm not "Done" :-). I want to pick partitions to install on, e

Re: F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-10 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 21:23 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > ...I'm still filled with trepidation when the only choice > I appear to have is to click "Done" after selecting a disk > to install on. I'm not "Done" :-). I want to pick partitions > to install on, etc, but there is absolutely no indication >

F19 Installer a little better, but...

2013-06-10 Thread Tom Horsley
...I'm still filled with trepidation when the only choice I appear to have is to click "Done" after selecting a disk to install on. I'm not "Done" :-). I want to pick partitions to install on, etc, but there is absolutely no indication you will have that chance unless you actually work up the nerve