Comment 6 for bug 1736959

Hi Israel,

Those changes may indeed make things less confusing.

Now i think of it, he person who i asked to do the installation is not
a native english speaker.
AND non technical. Most people who want to install a 'non-minstream'
OS will most likely have a more technical mindset. Allthough I have
seen people struggle even with the main Ubuntu 16.04 installer.

For non technical people the Device menu will be the biggest hurdle.
I have to think back to the days when I first started to install
alternative OS's
RedHat presented many roadblocks. And eventually i discovered Debian. :-D

The difference with Debian was that the way the wording was chosen it
was more easy to understand, or translate to other languages.
Now i'm not sure how this works for other languages, with different
grammar rules.

The Boot menu also improved.

I hope these little changes make it more easy for novice users.

I still have to try to dig up that file to see what's happening with
the disappearing menu and the non working panel2.
The annoyance is that i can't copy and paste from VMM client to the
host. And with the half empty menu i don't see a way to launch a
terminal from GUI. I'll install ssh-server
and access it from there. Just need some time without distractions. I
have all kinds of bullshit on my plate the last couple of days.

BTW What is the preferred architecture in KVM?
I was wondering if this could perhaps be messing with the menu
somehow, i guess not.

I used the default that VMM uses

At first the menu works fine, but im not sure if it was after the
update or after i manually tried to chance something when it
disappeared.

I ran the VM on a Lenovo laptop with a i5 CPU

Kind Regards,

Mano

On 12/18/17, Israel Dahl <email address hidden> wrote:
> These are the OBI specific issues ONLY:
>
> Ok, I began working on the issues you mentioned. I am changing some of
> the project info, because this mostly effects the installer (OBI)
>
> OBI already has a basic/advanced selection. So I reordered the menu and
> simply remove things from the basic menu. This should make it more
> simple.
>
> menu #2 the device selection menu:
> I modified the text to read:
> "Choose the drive to install to:"
> IF the user only has one drive it may still be confusing,though... I don't
> want to automatically choose any device to install to, so changing the text
> is going to be the best fix we can do here.
>
> I tried to make the PAE messaging more clear:
> "Do you want to install the PAE kernel now?
> If you are UNSURE you can always do this later, it is not needed."
> hopefully this will rid OBI of FUD :)
>
>
> bootloader selection menu
> I added:
> "If unsure choose this device:"
> and use the device variable from the device the OS was installed onto
> earlier. This should clear things up, I hope.
>
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> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1736959
>
> Title:
> issues with creating partitions / Installing ToriOS in a VM
>
> Status in OBI:
> In Progress
> Status in ToriOS:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> I tried to install ToriOS in a VM
>
> I followed the instructions in the help document but the install fails
> at the point after the partitions are detected.
>
> I created /root and /swap as stated in the help doc. also labelled
> them accordingly.
>
> Maybe i'm missing a step? the OBI procedure feels a bit strange, maybe
> that's where things went wrong.
>
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