Re: Installation
On Wed, September 12, 2012 7:08 am, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 09/12/2012 09:55 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
>> On Mi, 12 sep 12, 08:57:37, The Wanderer wrote:
>>
>>> Admittedly, not presenting the user with such a prompt at all would be
>>> less
>>> off-putting than either, but we may not be able to avoid that unless
>>> we
>>> relegate the ability to control partitioning/filesystems to the full
>>> expert
>>> install - and there may well be people who would prefer to handle their
>>> own
>>> partitioning, but would not be comfortable with all the details of the
>>> expert install process.
>>
>> One shortcut could be added: if the system has only one mass storage
>> device[1] display a simple prompt to choose between wiping everything
>> (and
>> doing a all-in-one partition install without other questions asked) or
>> proceeding to partitioning as usual.
>
> But how do you phrase such a prompt so that it won't be confusing (or
> otherwise
> off-putting) to our hypothetical "user who has no idea what a partition
> is"?
>
> As I understand the discussion so far how to avoid putting off that
> hypothetical
> user is precisely the issue at hand.
>
>> [1] more than one mass storage device can mean that the user has at
>> least
>> some knowledge of partitions and also the risk of doing something wrong
>> is
>> too big.
>
> There's also the consideration that an "all in one partition" install
> isn't
> necessarily the smartest thing in the first place - a separate /tmp/ at
> the very
> least would seem like a good idea. But the question of what the default
> "the
> user didn't want to handle partitioning at all" configuration should be is
> a
> separate one, and I may not know as much about the subject as I think I
> do.
I would be an advocate of at least a separate /home partition in the
'Newbie Install'.
Regards,
Weaver
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