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Re: [opensuse-factory] Partition selection openSUSE (install)
  • From: Azerion <azerion@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:37:16 +0200
  • Message-id: <200609121537.17308.azerion@xxxxxxxxx>
Op dinsdag 12 september 2006 14:45, schreef Lukas Ocilka:
> Thomas Meindl wrote:
> >> Partitioner, as it is now, is a very-well done considering the unseen
> >> layer (e.g., API), on the other hand, dialogs need to be changed to
> >> match our needs better. This is work in progress...
> >
> > I reckon it should be something like this that needs to be implemented:
> > *check for SL/openSUSE
> > *if found check if there are root and home as separate partitions
> > *if found ask user whether to format root, install there and use found
> > data partition as mountpoint /home or use present implemented behaviour.
>
> Another comments from Thomas Fehr:
> Currently we simply do not want to mount all filesystems to be able to
> create the proposal. Mounting might possibly take a long time and could
> even hang the machine if the filesystem is in a weird state.
>
> I think we might discuss it here but it still depends on Thomas :) and
> he's the only one who has enough information (and responsibility).
>
> Lukas

Maybe a button: read current partition-index? So you don't have to go true all
the screens for an expert-partitioning.

Azerion
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