Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (905 mails)

["Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 14 June 2008 05:26:25 pm Felix Miata wrote:

> The point is after accumulating a bit of experience you can use your own
> brain and come up with something better than an installer's guesstimate of
> your need, and leave that guesstimation to be applied on behalf of nOObs.
> There's really no need for partitioning surprises to waste a non-nOOb's
> time or data.

Problem is that guestimate can fail or even fail royally on the system that 
already has an existing Linux installation. 

What Lukas asked is to give use cases so that they (we) can create workflow 
that can be supported by partitioning wizard and will work safely for those 
that have one or two Linux installations, but still have no clear ideas about 
partitioning. Right now everyone, that already has some Linux on hard disk, 
better to know what he wants, check proposal and know how to accomplish 
partitioning using Expert mode, or it can be problem. 

With Ubuntu popularity it is easy to assume that:
- openSUSE can be often a second Linux installation (try)
- user is still noob for partitioning and will not check what proposal will 
bring. 

In that context any error in guestimate will produce problem which will drive 
users from openSUSE. 
 

-- 
Regards, Rajko
http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands.
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