Bill Davidsen wrote:
Andras Simon wrote:
On 5/28/08, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unless the new install has the same LABEL as one of the old ones. I know
three people who have been bitten by using LABEL and getting duplicates,
the beauty of UUID is that you won't get a dup with
Andras Simon wrote:
On 5/28/08, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can use uuids, labels or device names. Nothing has changed there. The
defaults the installer uses have changed, and it makes no sense for the
installer to ask new users questions like
Use UUID, LABEL or device name ?
How
Amadeus W.M. wrote:
On Thu, 29 May 2008 01:02:12 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
Because the answer in 99.99% cases is uh ??
Or: OK, let me chose the default.
Why even ask the question - if you know what you are doing you can
change it later on.
What if you don't know what you're doing, but
On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 15:08 -0700, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
Strikes me that the folks who do these things need to ask what the
users want. Or was I asleep when the discussion raged on the list?
I would imagine such discussions would be more likely to be on the
development lists, rather than this
Mogens Kjaer wrote:
Second, the automatic login for a designated user
has been removed.
It works in the F9 livecd.
The kickstart file for generating a livecd contains
the following in the %post section:
# set up timed auto-login for after 60 seconds
cat /etc/gdm/custom.conf FOE
You can use uuids, labels or device names. Nothing has changed there.
The defaults the installer uses have changed, and it makes no sense for
the installer to ask new users questions like
Use UUID, LABEL or device name ?
Because the answer in 99.99% cases is uh ??
In which case (and
Amadeus W.M. wrote:
Because if I'm a new user and I want to change, say, from UUID to labels
(post-installation) I may not know how to do that. You don't suppose new
users would know better after than before, do you?
You have to think about use cases and think about why non technical
Geoffrey Leach wrote:
...
Second, the automatic login for a designated user
has been removed.
It works in the F9 livecd.
The kickstart file for generating a livecd contains
the following in the %post section:
# set up timed auto-login for after 60 seconds
cat /etc/gdm/custom.conf FOE
