Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (850 mails)

[Thomas Meindl <tom.meindl@xxxxxx>]

Lukas Ocilka schrieb:
> 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.
>>     
>
>   
Whoops, sorry for sending the mail direct ;-) .
> 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
>
>   
Fits perfectly with me, 'cause I know such things look easy the first
time but can be a rat tail of very difficult problems. Thanks for
discussing and have a happy linux time,
kind regards, Tom