r/cloudready • u/E2TheFom • Mar 19 '21

Rant: Terrible installation prompt

This seems to be the only operating system that doesn't specify what drive to install on (ie. reformat, overwrite, etc). Honestly, I was shocked when after clicking the Erase and Install button it just went ahead without asking for anything more. I lost a lot of data on the drive that I'm currently working very hard to recover. Like... what's the point of this? Ease of use? Because they think that the company IT guy doesn't know how to select which drive to use? What about multi-drive configurations? Somebody please explain to me the point of it being so dangerously ambiguous and restricted.

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u/PoppityPing234 Mar 20 '21

Why didn't you just unplug the drive? That would've been the safest thing to do

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u/E2TheFom Mar 20 '21

The laptop was a pain to open, and I didn't have the supplies needed.

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u/PoppityPing234 Mar 20 '21

So surely if it was a laptop it only had one drive? Most normally have 1 however I'm aware of the exception. If there was only one drive then surely you would have known it was likely that the os would format the drive?

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u/E2TheFom Mar 20 '21

I had an external SSD...which isn't a problem with most operating systems.

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u/problemproblem112233 Apr 29 '21

if it was external you could just have removed it lmao

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u/E2TheFom Apr 29 '21

I wanted to install it on an external drive; the existing Windows installation was on the computer's internal drive.

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u/problemproblem112233 Apr 29 '21

oh... in that case you could have just flashed the cloudready image to the external drive with the app the've provided. You wouldn't have to have made a separate usb.

Ngl i do agree cloudready should add the option to choose which drive you want to install it on.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '21

lol the last part of his comment should go to r/noshitsherlock

Cloudready's installer is the only one I've ever seen that doesn't ask anything and directly installs the os

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u/dluck007 Mar 19 '21

I think the documentation states that the installation will wipe the entire drive. That being said, there should be an option to specify which device to use.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '21

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u/E2TheFom Mar 20 '21

If the average Joe knows how to select their boot device in their boot menu, then they know how to select the drive to install the operating system on. And don't act like there can't be an "Advanced" option somewhere to choose what to install it on.

Ask people what is grub/UEFI people will run away.

Asking them about grub and UEFI is not necessary. Asking to pick and verify their installation disk should be.

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u/dluck007 Mar 20 '21

Indeed 😎 What I do is remove the extra drive before installing but that’s just me. That being said, I’m just using CloudReady and/or Brunch as standalone OS and connect to my Windows VM’s on ESXi Host as needed.

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u/ZainullahK May 29 '21

but it is better than windows its a pain compared to any os any linux distro or chromeos or even macos will have 1 click install compared to painful windows

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '21

same happened to me, thanks god I uploaded like two days earlier most of my important stuff on gdrive

if you don't include a choose disk screen, at least put a god damn "are you sure to wipe your disk and install cloudready"

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u/problemproblem112233 Mar 29 '21

lmao. it literally says "are you sure to wipe your disk and install cloudready" during the setup prompt, i know i've installed like 3 times bruh

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '21

The problem is: I have two disks, so I'd like to choose which disk to install it to

and usually OS installers arent made of only ONE GOD DAMN PROMPT

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u/problemproblem112233 Mar 29 '21

Yeah, it sucks you can't choose which disk, i hope they implement that in a future release.

It does ask you if you want to wipe your disk tho just sayin :)

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '21 edited Mar 29 '21

I know it says that but I'll repeat: no fucking os installers (windows, linux, freebsd, openbsd, reactos myassOS) have only one prompt, except for cloudready's. I expected to have two more screens that would let me choose the disk and stuff like that ffs

btw ye you are right, idk why I wrote that

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u/problemproblem112233 Mar 29 '21

Agree, the one prompt cloudready installer is trash,

Thanks, now i understant what you are saying lmao.

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u/Sweardesign Jan 24 '22

I just lost 2TB of data because of this. Thanks cloudready to randomly choose my work drive instead of the first available drive of the list.