Thus spake David Pastern:
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 22:54 +1100, Michael Stone wrote:On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 04:13:30PM +0100, David Schmitt wrote:Yes and exactly that is the point why debian-installer rules, and the windows installer sucks.Yes and no. Take the new partitioner, for example. Yes, it lets you do more than the old partitioner, but if you think it's intuitive you're nuts. And not only is it not intuitive, it's different than anything anyone's used to partition things in debian before. So while it's more friendly for new users, it's like a martian to an experienced user who's comfortable with fdisk. Mike Stone
Hey, I wouldn't worry about experienced users so much. Is there anything stopping an experienced user from popping over to another console (ALT-F2) and using fdisk?
BTW, I like fdisk. I use it all the time. I also like the D-I partitioner. I use it all the time too. The D-I partitioner integrates raid+lvm+partitioning+filesystem selection into a nice tool, much more intuitive than having that quad of tasks happening as unrelated tasks.
Sincerely, Jeremy -- Jeremy S. Brand JBrand@lbl.gov +1.925.296.5686 Unix Systems Administrator - U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute http://www.jgi.doe.gov Lawrence Berkeley National Lab http://www.lbl.gov