William D. Hathaway wrote: > If disks that are too small (or otherwise invalid choices) can't be > "unselectable" can the icons for them be different at least (like a hard disk > image behind a "circle with a line through it") than the legal disks? If I > have 10 disks, but 9 are too small to install on, it seems tedious to make > the user select all 10 one by one before finding the disk that it is legal to > install on. > There will be an emblem on the unusable disks. Just not implemented yet. > I'm not sure what ordering the disks are displayed in, but I'd also recommend > making the first usable disk be in the position that users would be most > likely select (the disk on the far left or top depending on how the layout > goes). > I believe they are currently returned in discovery order. I does make good sense to list the usable disks first. Time is getting very tight for "new features" the initial release so we'll consider this in the subsequent release. > As far as the graphical partitioning, I understand if there isn't room in the > schedule for this phase. My intent (for Sarah's question I think) was > allowing people to visually decide how they want the disk carved up if they > are supporting multiples OSes on the boot disk. > There isn't room on the current screen for a visual display. To provide a visual partitioning display the partitioning would have to be moved to a second screen separate from disk selection. Since the partitions are listed as they are laid out on the disk, not partition table order, we felt the visual display added little additional information and that it is is much more useful to be able to select a sequence of disks, one at a time, and immediately see that disks partitioning.
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