Stephan Kulow wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 7. Mai 2008 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
The Wednesday 2008-05-07 at 09:39 -0400, Jonathan Pryor wrote:
When 1TB disks become commonplace, this might be better, but currently I'm not sure that this should be the default install setup... Not the default method, certainly. Simply another possibility. And you don't need gigantic disks: I usually have two or three systems per disk, anyway. You just need 10 GB: it is the system, not the data.
I don't know of any good idea to a) integrate this into the UI without scaring everyone b) avoid splitting the user testing base for updates
On this base I would object.
Sure, UI needs to be thought out carefully, and it needs to be made into a system that shares as much as possible of the actual install process with the other paths. I do a clean install of a new system on into a new partition on a new harddisk every few years, just because I tend to have this idea of getting rid of old cruft, but I usually then copy all still-needed configurations into the new system until I reach a point where it works again well enough to be used as the main system. This would be made much easier by such a type of install - and also experimental "how would my install work with Factory?" type of installs would be very much possible with that. The big question is probably how much worth it would add compared to the wroth in testing other processes that can potentially be lost, as you describe. Robert Kaiser --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org