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.
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.
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.
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.
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.