Bruce Perens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In my 1.1 installation notes, I just have the users make one filesystem > for simplicity's sake, and the resulting system does not seem to be any less > robust, going by the number of complaints. Of course the user can get fancy > once they know what they are doing.
Funny how the mind works. This made me think of the following suggestion for the installation which will help those who like to make lots of partitions. Currently, for me, one of the longest parts of the base installation is creating the filesystems. One filesystem at a time you have to: a) choose to create a filesystem; b) choose a particular filesystem; c) elect to check for bad blocks and then after the check is done; d) choose a mount point. I only have four additional Linux filesystems other than /, but this gets old real fast, especially when battling with NT and bleeding edge hardware and doing this over and over and over.... Ideally, it would be nice to have a form listing all the linux partitions. Here, the mount point for each can be chosen. Prompting for the check for bad blocks would only happen once, and the filesystems would be created and mounted at one time so one could do other things which this is going on. If such a form isn't possible within the current constraints, a good compromise would be to allow the user to create all the filesystems *before popping back to the main menu*. First the user should be asked whether to check for bad blocks for all filesystems created, then he should enter the mount points in turn, and then finally, all the filesystems should be created at once. The idea with all this installation stuff is to avoid having user actions interspersed with automatic actions that take a while. This also goes for dpkg -GROEB --configure--all the packages that require user intervention for setup should be postponed until last. Thanks. Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ph: +1-415-854-1857 fax: +1-415-854-3195 Say it with MIME. Maintainer of comp.mail.mh and news.software.nn FAQs. If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.
