I feel very strongly that we must not have timeouts on the options when you first boot. Eric gives a good example - it happened to me. I was at work when I was testing the new CDROM (on Parallels on my iMac) and happened to get a phone call. When I looked back at my session, I had gotten an error about not bootable.
It took a second try to realize that I didn't _really_ have a broken CDROM, but that was just the default setting. The timeouts also make it very hard for a new user to write down what they saw on screen (for example, to ask for help, saying "I chose this option.."). If you must have a timeout, use something "long" like 60 seconds ... but I'd much rather not have a timeout at all during the install process. -jh Blair Campbell wrote: > They have 15 seconds the first time (Win98 only gives 10 FYI), and the > second timeout gives 30 seconds. More than enough IMHO. > > On 7/17/06, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> The only two timeouts are the first timeout which defaults to boot >>> from the hard drive rather than the CD-ROM (nothing wrong with that >>> IMHO), and the second just boots defaultly into installation mode, >>> which is what most people will be after. >>> >> Please do not make that kind of assumptions. People who do not >> know about the "character" of the cdrom will first wonder why >> it never boots (default: boot from harddisk) and, when they >> figure out that, why it grabs their harddisk without first >> giving them a lot of time to think about whether they want DOS >> to be installed permanently. In short, just use infinite >> timeouts, or maybe a one minute timeout for the "default for >> boot from harddisk" item, to allow people to boot from cdrom, >> do a few selections, and then walk away (so the PC can reboot >> into dos-on-harddisk without further user intervention later). >> >> Eric -- I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't vote for him. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
