From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010803 Description of problem: Anaconda should really be more persistent when the users selects 'skip boot disk creation' Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install 2. skip boot disk creation 3. need the boot disk and swear bitterly Actual Results: No boot disk created, unnecessary work involved when attempting to rescue system Expected Results: A dialog when selecting 'skip boot disk creation' along the lines of [start] Are you sure you do not want to create a boot disk? This will be of gret help if you ever need to rescue your system. If you want you can use the boot disk provided in your box, it's original contents can be easily recreated from an image we include on CD1 (see documentation for details) and chances are your system is able to boot from CD anyway so you will not need that floppy for installation but it will help you in case of trouble. +----------------+ +----------------+ |create boot disk| |live dangerously| +----------------+ +----------------+ [end] Additional info: This would make life for tech support a lot easier
We've just made the text a little clearer and tell people when they're more likely to need them. Unfortunately, with the proliferation of machines without floppy drives these days, nagging to this degree would just be annoying.
do we deem the number of machines that do not have a floppy, but do have a CD burner, high enough to warrant an RFE to make an instant ISO at install time and either burn it (if the user selects boot CD from a select list) or leave it on disk with a readme file instructing the user how to burn the ISO? thanks for the text change in any case.