Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-ux (5 mails)

["Benji Weber" <b.weber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19/08/07, Sven Burmeister <sven.burmeister@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sonntag, 19. August 2007, Benji Weber wrote:
> > On 19/08/07, Sven Burmeister <sven.burmeister@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > There is already a live-installer, I believe will be available for
> > 10.3, It obviously has not been as fully tested as the normal
> > installation mode that we've been using for years though.
>
> How can one test it? I did not find any download for 10.3 beta 1, just the
> KDE/Gnome CD/DVD.

There are livecds here
http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3-Beta1/iso/cd/ I am not
100% certain these contain the live installer, try it and see.

> > > A non-expert operation should not require expert tools. Hence there is a
> > > usability bug. I made some suggestion in the bug report on how to solve
> > > this issue. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299612
> >
> > To accomplish this you do not actually have to use the expert mode,
> > you click on the proposal to change it, select custom, then are
> > presented with a list of hard disks, and can select either "Use entire
> > disk" or select the partition(s) to use. YaST will then create a
> > partition proposal for you. You do not need to use the complex custom
> > partitioner.
>
> You can only install on two partitions that are situated on the _same_
> harddisk. I was talking about two partitions on two separate disks.

I see, that could be made easier, though I doubt it is a particularly
common use case.

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Benjamin Weber
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