http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595577 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595577#c yang xiaoyu changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |xyyang@novell.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |aschnell@novell.com |ovo.novell.com | -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595577 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595577#c2 Jim Hawking changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW InfoProvider|jehawking@yahoo.co.uk | --- Comment #2 from Jim Hawking 2010-04-14 18:13:23 UTC --- Created an attachment (id=354428) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=354428) Files from /var/log/YaST2 as requested These are the files currently in the directory. I had 4 or 5 goes at this install and each one will have formatted the swap and root directories and therefore wiped the previous contents of this directory so these files only represent the last attempt by which time I was getting pretty practised at it. Also, I had problems on each go when it tried to boot into the new installation due to graphics problems. I probably overrode this on this last attempt and used zypper to install updated drivers. All this may have caused the logs to be pretty confusing. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595577 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=595577#c4 --- Comment #4 from Jim Hawking 2010-04-15 17:00:57 UTC --- (In reply to comment #3)

As you already noticed the proposal has to remove one partition to make space for the installation. So the proposal is valid.

Valid yes - but stupid. Asking the user is the best answer I can come up with but failing that it would be more sensible to propose deleting the old root partition than the /home one. Yast proposes the most dangerous option. The root partition can be recreated from the DVD that is already in the drive, the /home partition is the one that contains the data that is least likely to be restorable. (I do know about backups but they are not easy with a laptop and for a novice who would not spot the fault with the proposal, are an unlikely thing to have.) Also, it has a valid swap partition on the drive. Does it really need another one? It included one in the proposal.

Generating several proposals for the user to choose is clearly a feature request.

BTW: You could have used the "Import Mount Points" function.

Thank you - I did find it and used it but you only get to it if you spot the problem with the proposal. I will not pursue this further, there are bigger bugs for sure - but I do not think you have the user friendly thing right here. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.