On Wed, 2015-02-25 at 12:56 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 02/25/2015 12:46 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> > An example could be something like this: a button which opens a shell with
> > fdisk or gparted or similar,
> 
> I like that.  If you don't know enough Linux to use those tools (or how 
> to read and understand whatever help they give) you probably don't know 
> enough about the potential consequences of what you want to do.  That 
> would be an excellent pons asinorum that would weed out most of the 
> users who have overestimated their own knowledge and skills.  I presume 
> that the GUI already has sanity checks that make sure that you don't put 
> directories that must be on the root filesystem for booting onto 
> separate partitions, and those would still apply.

I'm not clear how this is better than just running fdisk off the live
image before running the installer, though.

Woogie

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