Lukas Ocilka schreef:
Jan Matějek wrote:
Lukas Ocilka napsal(a): ...
Not at all. We are talking about update. Update doesn't propose any partition changes (which is safe). New installation does, but sometimes it proposes to reuse already created ones (which is the best way).
Really? I thought that we are talking about new installation here, that's what i'm talking about anyway ;e)
No, the thread is about both 'new installation' and 'upgrade'. It's about: Why we should not do all that stuff at once (which would be requested by the proposed dialog).
L.
Hi guys;) I am very glad this issue is at hand to be solved in the near future, (i hope!). The proposels made here, someway have to combined to have it all; it seems. Please don't cut someone's proposels off with a blunt blade ;), it is realy nessesary to make the *right* changes here, we all know that? What is reality? Fresh install: 1)Dual with MS, 2)Dual with (several) MS & all kinda Linux-OS, 3)Single, and 4)update. As long as no real decision is made, the partiontables are not altered, but: Real partition-info is needed, to decide which one(s) is/are going to be used. fi. /swap can be used by all linux-os, a /tmp can be used by all linux-os, /boot, if big enough, can be used by all linux-os, (however there are voices that say that it would be better to have a seperate bootloader partition, and have the initrd and kernels in the / of the particular os, with the bootloader pointing at them, instead of in a seperate /boot partiton, which would solve the bootproblems we sometimes have), /home can be used by many, if not all linux-os, if one is not too picky about scriptbugs that reside in the users config... ;) I hope i am not distracting you from 'the' issue, but show you some use of disk can exist.. which would be nice to have visible, to make it easier to make the right decision, as some of us regularly express, when this issue is up again. Proposels to wipe out the wrong partition(s) just isnt nice. So importing a partiontable (fi.from the most recent install) without altering it would not be so bad? As i understand, the way the proposels are made, can depend on the choice a user makes in the examples given by Marc and Lucas: Installation type ( ) Install additionally to existing operating systems (without touching them) ( ) Modify [ComboBox with already installed Linux Versions on the machine] ( ) Install over the selected operating system (this will delete the selected operating system) ( ) Update selected Linux ( ) Repair selected Linux ( ) Set up a machine with one single operating system (this will delete all installed operating systems) and: * New installation * Disk is blank (use the whole disk?) (make a proposal/partition manually?) * Some other systems are already installed (leave them all/remove them/remove some?) * Enough space for new installation (make a proposal/partition manually?) * Disk is full (make a proposal/resize manually/resize what?) * Upgrade (which system?) Is it possible, to somehow merge these examples? -- Enjoy your time around, Oddball (Now or never...) Besturingssysteem: Linux 2.6.25.4-8-default x86_64 Current user: oddball@AMD64x2-sfn1 System: openSUSE 11.0 (x86_64) KDE: 4.0.4 (KDE 4.0.4 >= 20080505) "release 21.1" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org