I consider myself a basic user and what Chris describes is what I do every time I install the latest release on my laptop from the livecd, a process that has always taken a couple of minutes of configuration followed by however long copying the image took. I re-use my existing partitions, /, /home and swap only reformatting / since that is where the new install goes. My partitioning scheme is about as simple as it gets. Although it certainly would not be hard to re-create it, why has it become necessary?
Dan Krawchuk On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 09:31:39PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:31:39 -0800 > From: Adam Williamson <awill...@redhat.com> > To: For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases > <test@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Subject: Re: why not a partition assignment mode? (Re: community etiquette > (Re: Rename anaconda to cryptoconda?)) > > On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 14:38 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > > > click 1 and click 2= get to Manual Partitioning. Click 3= reveal your > > partitions. Click 4= choose the partition you want to reuse. Click 5= > > choose a mount point. Click 6= reveal custom options. Click 7= check > > reformat which is not actually custom or an option, it's a requirement by > > anaconda. > > > > Why am I required to reformat? It prevents me from using file system > > options set at format time. > > > > The basic user who simply wants to reuse a partition or volume needs to go > > through 7 really non-discoverable clicks, and the expert can't even do what > > he wants unless he learns kickstart. Both requirements solved by point and > > shoot to a valid partition/volume, presented and selected in a single > > window. > > I'm not sure that your assumption that 'basic users' just want to reuse > a partition really holds true. It's not a hugely common use case in my > experience, and tends to be more popular among *experienced* users, who > have a favourite partition scheme or tool or whatever. But without any > data, we're just comparing theories... > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora > http://www.happyassassin.net > > -- > test mailing list > test@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
