Bill Moran wrote:
>
> Wes Peters wrote:
>
> > Oh, come now. FreeBSD's disk partitioning has always sucked. It does suck
> > somewhat less than many Linux linstallers, and a lot less than the OpenBSD
> > installer, but it still shoves way too many details and options at the
> > average user. Something akin to PartitionMagic would be an ideal way to go,
> > given unlimited resources to throw against this particular problem.
>
> Now, I've never used partition magic, but I (personally) find the
> FreeBSD
> partition program in sysinstall to be the easiest one I've ever used.
> What should be changed to make it easier?
"How much of this disk do you want FreeBSD to use? ___%"
Was that really so difficult to imagine? Better yet, a nice graphical
view of the disk and the 4 possible entries in the partition table. Allow
the user to grab the ends of partitions we can manipulate and move them
around, either through keyboard navigation or with a mouse. Focus on the
task we're attempting to accomplish: slicing the disk into 1 to 4 differnt
logical parts, rather than on the crufty underlying details.
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