[opensuse-factory] 11.1 partitioner
This was intended as answer to Ken's post, but idea is far offtopic for another thread, so it would be better to start new one. On Thursday 26 June 2008 09:56:48 am Ken Schneider wrote:
and perhaps flashing?
and comic where guy erasing blackboard, with another looking at and holding hands on head. It sounds silly, but picture is worth thousand words and even the one that never formatted hard disk will understand that something will disappear and someone will be sorry for that. Adding few words of normal text as a comment for A11y readers: "Formatting means that all your data, pictures, music, photos, homework, etc. will be erased. Do you want to save your data, first?" Ups, now we need backup option. ....................................... To me running installation from Live system geared primarily for installation could be the best option. It will allow access to large number of programs needed to test and prepare hardware components, partition hard disk, make backup etc, give chance to use graphic like proposed above. It will be a lot of work, but starting with installation user will have fun with openSUSE. -- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Rajko M. wrote:
This was intended as answer to Ken's post, but idea is far offtopic for another thread, so it would be better to start new one.
On Thursday 26 June 2008 09:56:48 am Ken Schneider wrote:
and perhaps flashing?
and comic where guy erasing blackboard, with another looking at and holding hands on head.
It sounds silly, but picture is worth thousand words and even the one that never formatted hard disk will understand that something will disappear and someone will be sorry for that.
Adding few words of normal text as a comment for A11y readers: "Formatting means that all your data, pictures, music, photos, homework, etc. will be erased. Do you want to save your data, first?"
Ups, now we need backup option.
From some winapp: "3D *animated* no-nags *disk* utility that will take boring *hard* drive statistics and spice them up using 3D *animation*. Tells you what kind of files are on the *..." * Vahis --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On Thursday 26 June 2008 11:07:29 pm Vahis wrote:
From some winapp: "3D *animated* no-nags *disk* utility that will take boring *hard* drive statistics and spice them up using 3D *animation*. Tells you what kind of files are on the *..."
I have feeling that "some win app" actually made different type of boring, like animated hard disk model which is equally boring and uninformative for total beginners as any partitioning table. Not to forget, we are all there for some subjects. Little embedded crash course can be more than wanted. I had in mind just plain image that we can see in comics. Silly, simple comic that will be insult for some educated users, but clear analogy to everybody that has no insight in computer internals. How much work is that? A lot. Few years probably to cover the most popular topics. Starting with identifying technical words that have no, or have different, meaning in normal language. - Formatting paragraph in text editor doesn't mean that you will loose text. It will just change the shape, so users that have another OS already installed when they bought computer, most probably have no idea that blackboard (hard disk) will be erased and that empty table will be written on it. - Partitioning - most of users have no idea that it is possible to have hard disk (what is hard disk?) space split into areas that are used as separate disks. and so on. I work for company that is offering different types of training software. Basic is only images and the top is full multimedia. Which is default depends on purchased equipment. Similar, if Live CD discovers slow machine it will offer something that fits the abilities of hardware. If windows was only OS and hard disk is topped with files, than there is great chance that user has no idea about formatting and partitioning. -- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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