Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-testing (84 mails)

[Oddball <monkey9@xxxxxx>]

Op 27-09-09 13:54, Rajko M. schreef:
> The basic problem is that Installer (YaST Partitioner) is trying to guess too 
> much without knowing user wishes, or having very elaborate workflow for 
> different existing setups. 
>   

I have *never* ever had a proposel that was right..
And i think that the main reason is that the previous mountpoints are
ignored at that point.
Because they are never based on any of them.

In expert mode import of different mountpoints (if they exist
offcourse), which is imo the only way to get oS installed how and where
someone wants..
> Asking too many questions is not a goal when user is not experienced, but 
> asking nothing and going with sole goal to win as much space as possible 
> without damaging main windows installation is not good either. 
>   

No, the auto-proposels are very wrong indeed.

> Taking example with 2 windows disks. 
> I can have data disk that I don't want to be touched, no matter how small 
> space is left for openSUSE. 
> If space is only 5 GB then create single partition, but warn user right away, 
> during installation, that burning DVD is not possible with so little space. 
> It 
> is just for basic office work, nothing else that requires handling large 
> files. 
> If space is 10 GB then still one partition without warning, but make sure 
> that 
> temp directory is emptied often. 
> If space is 20 GB then allow 2 partitions, / and /home, and so on. 
>   
That would be possible to implement, the way it sounds to me..


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