[Bug 470458] New: Misleading warning in the installer says "ALL partitions will be removed"
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470458 Summary: Misleading warning in the installer says "ALL partitions will be removed" Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: unspecified Platform: All OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1 Status: NEW Severity: Minor Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: d.pashov@gmail.com QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121300 SUSE/3.0.5-2.5 Firefox/3.0.5 This is since at least 11.1 but I've remembered it when I saw it in 11.2 factory. The summary says it almost all. The message that appears after pressing the "begin installation" button but before any changes are done to the disk is misleading. No matter what is the actual setup it always says that all partitions are going to be removed. It is nothing really serious but quite irritating when you are not sure if it is true or not, especially when you know what have you done through the custom partitioning. I had to abort the installation once and to run it in a virtual machine in order to make sure nothing bad is going to happen. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start openSUSE 11.1 or 11.2 installation 2.Set your mount points by hand using "edit partition setup"/"cusom partitioning" 3.Save and go forward with the installation by pressing "Install" (or "begin install"? don't remember) Actual Results: A warning message appears saying that all my partitions will be deleted, even though I manually set the formatting and mounted only certain partitions. Not all. Expected Results: I would be much appreciated if the message is not so misleading and actually tells which partitions are going to be modified. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470458 Jiří Suchomel <jsuchome@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |kmachalkova@novell.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |aschnell@novell.com |ovo.novell.com | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470458 User kmachalkova@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470458#c1 Katarina Machalkova <kmachalkova@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |aschnell@novell.com AssignedTo|aschnell@novell.com |locilka@novell.com --- Comment #1 from Katarina Machalkova <kmachalkova@novell.com> 2009-02-19 01:39:22 MST --- I suppose you mean this message: "All information required for the base installation is now complete. If you continue now, existing partitions on your hard disk will be deleted or formatted (erasing any existing data in those partitions) according to the installation settings in the previous dialogs." Actually, it mentions deleting the partitions only if some destructive actions (e.g. deleting or formatting partition - not necessarily all of them, one is enough) are scheduled. This message comes from yast2-installation ... maybe it can be made less scary? :) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470458 Lukas Ocilka <locilka@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|locilka@novell.com |aschnell@novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470458 User aschnell@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470458#c2 Arvin Schnell <aschnell@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #2 from Arvin Schnell <aschnell@novell.com> 2009-02-19 02:52:38 MST --- The message does not say "all partitions". The feature request wanted a scary warning. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470458 User d.pashov@gmail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470458#c3 --- Comment #3 from Dimitar Pashov <d.pashov@gmail.com> 2009-02-19 03:29:55 MST --- OK, I found it too scary but if it was designed to be like that so be it. It is a matter of subjective opinion how scary it should be. I just checked it doesn't say "all partitions" indeed, just "existing partitions". -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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