On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 05:28:11PM -0500, S. Salman Ahmed wrote: > >>>>> "CT" == Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> That's what I figured, although I personally preferred the old > >> behaviour. This current behaviour makes me think that the > >> installer is trying to be a little too smart! > CT> I think it's a good step, I believe we need to reduce the load > CT> on the user, and this is a good way to do it. Naturally the > CT> non-newbie can get around it if it's not doing the right > CT> thing. We have a lot of criticism that the installation is > CT> complicated, we reply that no, it's flexible, in reality if we > CT> do these kinds of things it can be both. > CT> > CT> Are you concerned it would choose the wrong one? > CT> > > No, not really. Its just that I found the old behaviour to be more > consistent with the overall approach/behaviour of b-f. The extra > confirmation step would just validate what the user (newbie or > non-newbie alike) might already have been aware of. > > I brought this issue up as well only because this new behaviour caught > me by surprise. I began wondering if I had missed some step/prompt. > > Also, I don't think it reduces the load on the user all that much > anyways - its saves the user what one keypress ?? > > What might be useful is to point out to the user that: > > (for example) > > Found /dev/hda1 of type Linux swap. Using /dev/hda1 as Linux swap > partition. > > at the top of the same prompt/panel where they are asked whether they > want to initialize that partition as the Swap parition. > > Ditto for /dev/hda2 and the Linux root partition from my original > scenario.
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