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On 10/25/19 7:44 AM, Wayne Sallee
wrote:
-------- Original Message --------
*Subject: * Re: Debian Installer, Manual Partitioning is a Joke
*From: * Christopher David Howie <me@chrishowie.com>
*To: * Debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
*CC: *
*Date: * 2019-10-22 12:43 PM
On 10/13/19 6:56 PM, Wayne Sallee wrote:
The non-graphical needs work too:
There's no manual partitioning option without going first to
guided
partitioning
This is patently false. Every Debian setup I have done in the
last ten
years I've done with manual partitioning in the text-mode
installer. The
option to do partitioning manually is among the guided
options, you just
have to select it.
See the attached screenshot.
I went back through my cd images, and had a hard time finding
it. Finally I found it.
Yes under normal circumstances the manual partitioning is there
without having to select guided partitioning.
But when I was writing up my info on how difficult the
partitioning can be, I ran into the situation where there was no
option to select manual portioning without first selecting
guided partitioning, and was surprised and disappointed to see
that debian makes you select guided partitioning in order to
find the manual partitioning option. But sure enough, under
normal circumstances the manual partitioning is available
without having to select guided partitioning.
So here it is. . . .
On any screen that has the "back" option, select back to go to
the main menu, and you will get that long list of options. You
will see there, "Detect disk", "Partition disk", "Install the
system".
Select "Partition disk"
You will then see a number of options; one being guided
partitioning, but no option for manual partition. You have to
select guided partition, in order to get to the manual
partition.
So what needs to be done on that screen, is the change the
option name from "Guided partitioning" to something like
"Partition options".
Wayne Sallee
Wayne@WayneSallee.com
http://www.WayneSallee.com
Actually what it needs is to put the manual partitioning options
at the top, instead of (putting Guided partitioning at the top and
defaulting the user to guided partitioning at the top) when the
*user just got done selecting manual partitioning*. The manual
partitioning options are unclearly buried at the bottom.
I believe this would be a "feature request"
contact the Debian Installer Team and ask politely
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Team
"unclear" is an opinion that I do not share
Wayne Sallee
Wayne@WayneSallee.com
http://www.WayneSallee.com
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