On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 15:15, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > > I suggest a simple solution. I think the most important thing is that > > users don't see a blue screen for several seconds like it's now, but a > > progress bar. I would only step it forward after one filesystem is > > created, so we don't have to parse mkfs.* output. A setup with only one > > root partition and one swap would have two steps: > > 0% creating filesystem on /dev/... > > 50% creating swap on /dev/... > > 100% finished > > It would definitely help compared to what we have today, but it would still > suck. Yes, but I don't think it's worth to invest more time in that now. This would be an easy and acceptable solution.
> > > I think one point of having partitioner is, that it does not use > > libparted for filesystem creation and is therefore more versatile and > > less prone to errors. > > Why would running mkfs.ext2 be more versatile than using libparted? (Like I > said, I'd use mkfs.* for JFS etc., but ATM we don't even have that on our > install disks. :-) ) I don't know how stable parted on i386 is. Last time I tried to format a partition with parted on my powerbook it just hung forever and did not format the partition. So I thought parted my be a little bit flaky. Actually I don't know if the bug is in the frontend or the library. Gaudenz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
