On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 1:20 AM, Ondrej Majerech <oxyd.o...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 18 January 2013 23:40, Roger <are...@bigpond.com> wrote: > >> On 01/19/2013 09:13 AM, David A. De Graaf wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 01:26:36PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: >>> >>>> David A. De Graaf wrote: >>>> >>>>> Fedora 18. >>>>> >>>>> What a disaster! What were they thinking when they threw away a >>>>> perfectly good installer and inflicted this new User Interface on us? >>>>> >>>> >>> It's simple, I had no problems, it just worked and I have a perfectly >> good Fedora 18 >> Roger > > > I also used it to install Fedora 18 onto a system with pre-existing > partitions. I wanted it to newfs the old / partition that had contained F17 > root on it, mount and not wipe my /home, /boot, /boot/efi and swap, and not > touch the Windows partition. These are all GPT partitions at that. > > What you do is that you choose the manual partitioning, then click each > partition you want to use, and tick the "mount" checkbox (and tick the > "wipe" checkbox, if you want to do that). The list of partitions under > "Fedora 18" header on the left-hand side should fill up with the partitions > that you want. > > I have to agree that UI-wise it is a disaster, though. For one thing, the > UI was very unexpected to me, and while I enjoy the change in the rest of > the installer UI, I prefer to know exactly what I'm doing when it comes to > partitioning. I didn't really know what I was doing this time; I clicked > random stuff, hoped that it would work, and it did. > > It would be very welcome if the installer at least showed me some review > of the changes to the partitions it was going to do. You know, that simple > table every other GUI partitioning tool I have ever used shows you before > touching your drive: "I'm going to mount /dev/sda5 to /, and put a shiny > new ext4fs on it; I'm going to mount /dev/sda4 to /boot, /dev/sda1 to > /boot/efi, /dev/sda7 to /home, /dev/sda6 as swap and not wipe any of these. > Is this what you want? [Yes, proceed] [No, no, oh god, no! Let me change > that!]". This simple summary of changes would have made me a lot more > comfortable with the new installer experience. > > That's at least as far as I'm concerned. Fortunately, I don't have RAID or > encrypted partitions. > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > > Oh for crying out loud, would you people STOP reinforcing my hunch to put off moving to F18 for another month? -- Best, Christopher Svanefalk Resume (LinkedIn): http://www.linkedin.com/in/csvanefalk mob: +46762628251 skype: csvanefalk
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