----- Original Message ----- From: "Carroll Grigsby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Failed install
>> I just think, as >> I stated in my original note, that the install process is poorly designed. >> The failures I encountered were in non-critical packages, so it should have >> just said so and finished the installation. >Guy: >That's an interesting idea, but it's probably not practical to implement. Your >definition of "non-critical" is probably quite different than mine. >My bet is that the new drive solves your problems. Well, they could use a hammer approach and then refine it over time. For example, if Disk 1 was okay but errors occurred on Disk 2 or 3, then the installation can start up, so finish the install. If errors occurred on Disk 1, then likely the installation is fubar and won't be able to start up in any clean configuration, so just abort the install. Of course, the installer can always prompt (in the first case) "I encountered some errors but the installation will boot up - would you like to abort or finish?" What could be more irksome than the current approach of taking two hours to finish, not saying anything until the end, then dumping the user back at the start of the installation again? At the very least, abort the whole process when you encounter the first read error, because you know at that point you are not going to let the installation finish anyway. (And of course, I don't mean you Carroll, I mean you the Mandrake installation process.) Yes, I'm sure the new CD-RW will take care of all this. Thanks to all for taking the time to reply.
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