Right now, when you start Fedora live media to install Workstation or KDE or
etc., you get an ugly text prompt which defaults to doing a media test
(although it's not actually even clear from the highlighting that that's the
default).

I think since burning spinning optical media is no longer the normal way to
do this, we should drop this and just go straight to booting (unless of
course a key is hit to stop things and enter boot parameters).

In my experience with USB sticks (and i've probably made over 500 of 'em in
the last few years), the most likely failure modes are like this:

1) Doesn't even write properly.
2) Doesn't boot after you created it.
3) Fails hard and it's definitely done
4) Random transient errors

The test media option doesn't actually help with any of these except maybe
making #3 happen slightly sooner. With #4, it actually means that in some
cases you'd be fine just doing the install and the test fails.

Let's just go ahead and get people started faster.

-- 
Matthew Miller
<[email protected]>
Fedora Project Leader
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