Rajko M. wrote:
New installation of 11.0 a3. Update after configuration of repositories.
Machine: VirtualBox running in 32 bit openSUSE 10.3 on Athlon 64. Virtual Memory: 512 MB (further:memory) Virtual Hard disk: 2x 8 GB (further:hard disk, HD)
Known bug where installation stops on hard disk probe and known workaround: boot parameter 'hwprobe=-parallel,-misc.par'
Installation looks super until it comes to partitioning.
Case: Multiple Linux installations or partitions and no more space on hard disk. HD1 was Alpha2 installation. HD2 was valid 10.3 installation. Proposal: Delete existing and create new partitions on HD2.
It would be good, if installer discovers 2 Linux installations, to ask which one should be used for installation, instead to propose something just to fill in this part of proposal.
Blindly assuming may ruin user work. In this case that would happen by deleting valid 10.3 installation, instead of Alpha2. Though, reversed proposal is not good either as it is possible that I want to keep Alpha2 to check differences. Assuming that installation on second disk is not important, is not good as I can test different distros, and one on HD1 can be the one that I want to overwrite. There is more similar use cases.
This can't be decided automatically and user that has 2 Linux installations and no more free space on hard disk knows which one is installation target. No one else in the world can tell that for him.
Solution: Ask before you give proposal. This will help openSUSE to prevent user from accidental deletion his data.
I recently did a 11.0 Alpha2 x86_64 install where 2 HD's were in the box, an new SATA drive and the previous mobo's IDE x86 drive. Partitioning and grub got so confusing that I had to pull the IDE drive to keep matters sane. Alpha2 install went OK as did zypper dup to Alpha3. On another box that was progressively upgraded from 10.2 Alpha0, the 11.2 DVD saw the HD's differently to what grub on the HD's saw, sda on one was sdb on the other and there was sdc as well. I came close to wiping sdb which was the one I wanted to upgrade, while sda was the one I wanted to wipe. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org