On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 02:06:50PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 10:46:05PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > > > We do have a beta3 branch in the repo, but it's acting more like a tag, > > I guess, no changes have been made to it. > > > > I tried the new partman, and it works great. Wow, that's a lot of work! > > My only quibble is with the use of the term Wizard, as in "Use the > > Wizard to partition". I don't think wizard is a proper noun, so should > > not be capitalised, and I don't see how this is better than the old > > "Automatically partition". It assumes that the user is familiar with > > windows wizard-type things (and doesn't hate them ;-), and seems overly > > cute to me. > > Just my $0.05 worth... > > On a system that I've already got an operating system installed on, that I > really, really would prefer not to hose, I'm going to fear and distrust > anything that uses the words "Automatic" and "Partition" together, and > choose some other option that implies I have more control over whether or > not I accidentally hose the partition that has my other OS on it... > > Particularly if I'm not confident before selecting the item that it isn't > going to go off on it's merry way and do something unrevertable before I get > a chance to go "hang on!". > > I suspect users new to Linux/Debian but familiar with PCs in general are > going to take this line of reasoning.
I know of people who simply aborted the whole installation process when faced with partman, even if there was this manual partitioning option. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]