Wes Peters wrote:
>
> 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? ___%"
This would be a nice little addition (and probably easy to add) but
I don't see a tremendious gain from this.
> Better yet, a nice graphical
> view of the disk and the 4 possible entries in the partition table.
I would classify this as "fluff and glitz", but that may just be me.
> Allow
> the user to grab the ends of partitions we can manipulate and move them
> around, either through keyboard navigation or with a mouse.
Hmmm ... we're really aiming at novice users here now, aren't we? I
suppose
that's not a bad thing, but I just never thought of going so far with
it.
> 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.
Hmmm ... well, I was never upset with the "crufty details" ... I rather
like
to know what's going on under the hood all the time. Then again, that's
me. If you're targeting newbies and other less-educated (or less "I sure
would like to figure this out" inclined) people, then what you're
suggesting would probably be a good idea.
OTOH: if you made it so the "crufty details" were no longer visible
at all, I would be upset to NOT be able to see what was going on.
> "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
You're on Earth. No further explanation needed.
-Bill
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