On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 03:36:41PM +0100, Terje J. Hanssen wrote: > At first, even not actually a problem, but easy to oversee what > happends. What is the idea behind the change of the Yast2 partitioning > that now by default try to split the last disk partition in two? I > wished as for previous 10.0 to install 10.1 beta in one root partition > on the same /dev/hda12. But now at each installation attempt, Yast try > to remove and split this partition in two smaller partitions /dev/hda12 > and /dev/hda13, one for /home and one for root. In my opinion the user > should safer do this selection if actual, not Yast by default.
The idea is that first time users get a /home partition. The advatage of a /home partition is that if you do a new installation with 10.2 or later, your home partition will not be removed. On the fact that it uses the last drive by default: I can see two ways of thinking here. If you DO it by default, you risk that the user looses data on that drive that is important. If you DON'T do it, then the user might not be able to install. Changes for the intermediate user are very easy to do (and on the lighter side: it shows the beginner that messages on a Linux machine ARE importand and klicking OK by default is not always a good thing. ;-) houghi -- You better believe that marijuana can cause castration. Just suppose your girlfriend gets the munchies! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
