GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 677103
Show OS name wizard's setup page
Last modified: 2018-01-11 09:53:03 UTC
When a Windows image has been identified, there's a settings page in the "New box" wizard where you can enter the CD Key for your windows installation image. Given that this key varies depending on the Windows 'edition' (home, professional, 32 bit, 64 bit, ...), a reminder of the exact Windows version to be installed could be useful in picking the right key. Very skewed towards my "lots of MSDN isos for testing purpose" usecase, but it probably can be shown while feeling natural.
Hmm libosinfo doesn't let us differentiate between the various editions though :-/
(In reply to comment #0) > When a Windows image has been identified, there's a settings page in the "New > box" wizard where you can enter the CD Key for your windows installation image. > Given that this key varies depending on the Windows 'edition' (home, > professional, 32 bit, 64 bit, ...), a reminder of the exact Windows version to > be installed could be useful in picking the right key. > Very skewed towards my "lots of MSDN isos for testing purpose" usecase, but it > probably can be shown while feeling natural. Good point but i'd call this an enhancement, still. (In reply to comment #1) > Hmm libosinfo doesn't let us differentiate between the various editions though > :-/ We could fix that in two ways: 1. Add new more specific entries that derive from the generic one we have currently, OR 2. Just like 32-bit or 64-bit info comes from the media, we can have this info on media as well.
Now that we know that there can be multiple different variants on the same disk and product key is the way (or at least the one we'll provide) to select the variant to install, how does it affect this bug?
That's a good question ;) I don't think this changes a lot for this bug, I expect that most of the time different ISOs will be different editions and that the same ISO supporting multiple editions will be the exception, but maybe my assumptions are wrong.. Hopefully all this information is encoded in the ISO label anyway and libosinfo can take care of it.
Yeah, I don't ever recall seeing any ISO with multiple editions so if you haven't encountered any either, we can probably safely assume that its very much a corner case. One that we can look into handling when it realizes.
(In reply to comment #5) > Yeah, I don't ever recall seeing any ISO with multiple editions so if you > haven't encountered any either, we can probably safely assume that its very > much a corner case. I've seen Windows with multiple editions, what I don't know is if MS actually distributed the same ISO under different names using only the product key as a differentiator.
(In reply to comment #6) > (In reply to comment #5) > > Yeah, I don't ever recall seeing any ISO with multiple editions so if you > > haven't encountered any either, we can probably safely assume that its very > > much a corner case. > > I've seen Windows with multiple editions, what I don't know is if MS actually > distributed the same ISO under different names using only the product key as a > differentiator. Windows Vista and 7's all flavours except Starter Edition use a common installation media(single ~2.5GB DVD-ROM) per version, whereas Starter editions use different ones(single 680MiB CD-ROM). So it is hard to determine Windows version is difficult when based on files present.
Well we have variants support in libosinfo now and that info is available for at least some Windows versions already. We actually already use that to name VMs.
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