Comment 15 for bug 766265

"The button text is changed to "Install Now" to reflect this."

No, it's not. That would at least be some indication that the the install was really going to begin right then. I just repeated a test to be certain and the attached screenshot shows exactly what does happen.

The shot on the left displays that I've chosen alongside with 10GB free, and the shot on the right displays exactly what happens when you click on forward. You'll notice it does display "installing" at the bottom, which rapidly changes to "detecting file systems" and the "quit" button has disappeared, the back button is grayed out (non-functional), so the only way to quit is to hit the reset button on the box.

The next screen to appear is "Where are you". Now, If you know in advance what the installer is likely to do that should be OK, something we can revisit in Oneiric for sure, and I definitely agree that it would be foolish at this point to fiddle with ubiquity.

I do however believe we need to make some mention of this in the release notes (not real sure how to word that though). Keep in mind that posts #4 thru #10 reflect what happened when I had a blank 4GB flash drive plugged in, albeit intentionally to prove my point.

I've helped troubleshoot quite a few boot problems where someone had mistakenly left a memory card from a camera or such inserted and ended up cussing grub when the problem was actually located between the chair and the keyboard :^)

OTOH it shouldn't cause any data loss, at worst a wasted 20 minutes of install time and the simple reformatting of whatever drive/partition was mistakenly used.

Anyway I'm subscribing the release team so they can decide if this warrants a mention in the release notes.