Wrong wording vs. automatically mount install CD/DVD

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This bug report was migrated from our old Bugzilla tracker.

Reported in version: unspecified Reported for operating system, platform: Linux, PC

Comments on the original bug report:

On 2010-01-26 12:06:52 -0500, wrote:

If you have a installer which requires a CD/DVD which is not inserted, the installer shows a message to insert the CD/DVD. If you do so nothing happens afterwards because it's not mounted.

Loki_setup used to automatically mount required CDs/DVDs. Either change the wording, so the user knows what to do (mount != insert) or implement a similar auto. mount feature for MojoSetup.

On 2010-01-26 13:27:07 -0500, Ryan C. Gordon wrote:

I'm not against changing the text, but...

Aren't most distros using an automounter now? If you insert a CD-ROM into, say, a modern Ubuntu install, it automatically mounts it. I assume other distros do the same thing. In these cases, mounting and inserting are the same thing, and the current message is less confusing for the user.

--ryan.

On 2010-01-26 15:59:57 -0500, wrote:

No idea about how many distros have enabled or use "automounter" stuff. You may be right about that there is no need for something like what is used in loki_setup to automatically mount required CDs/DVDs nowadays. But I still think if you are a Linux user you should know that a file system has to be mounted before you can access it. Why should "mount" be more confusing than "insert"? :)

I know of at least one person who reported a bug that the installer could not find the required CD before he realized the installer did not find it because it was not mounted. He was used to loki_setup, which did the job of mounting for him. He also complained about the wording.

It would be fine by me, if the wording could be changed and I understand a similar automounting approach like in loki_setup would be overkill nowadays despite that there are "some" people which do not use any kind of "automounter" stuff.

On 2010-01-26 16:48:27 -0500, Ryan C. Gordon wrote:

Let me think about it a little bit. I'll probably change this to do something like: if this is a Unix box ("mounting" doesn't make sense elsewhere), and there's a localized string for "Please mount '%s'", then use that, otherwise, use the original string.

--ryan.