On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 08:06:56AM +0200, Snulkid wrote: > Hello > > Le Mercredi 25 Avril 2007 22:48, Jan Claeys a écrit : > > > W$-gebruiker al schrik gehad :-) dat het z'n schijf ging > > > overschrijven terwijl het in feite live start. (...) > > (...) een gelocaliseerde versie van de CDs voor België te maken. > > Wat "live" vs. "overschrijven" betreft: dat staat op de officiële CDs > > & op de site wel uitgelegd. Maar idd. een goed idee om dat > > misschien tijdens het booten ook nog eens duidelijk te maken ("/me > > noteert"). > > After he asks me about Linux and Linux distros, a (computer-literate) > collegue has tried ubuntu and was a bit lost about accessing his disks > (he wanted to open some files for testing purposes). > Maybe icons on the desktop "à la Knoppix", at least during the live > session, would be an improvement. When *first* clicking on them, a > popup dialog box could clearly inform about the "overwriting concern". > And if there is a reliable way to figure out which partition is C:, > D:,... (I guess there is), including such a mention in the icon name > would be quite useful for Average Joe. > > Your opinion ?
Not a good idea; why? : - if the swap is hda or sda1, where does you give the first hd part the name C:\ ? - the nomenclatura of hda/sda is not the major problem, the admin/detection of it and their correct implementation in teh boot lines in menu.lst, that's a major goal. - When concepts are totally different, IMHO ex-W$ people should do efforts to understand why it is so different, as if thei should understand that your Linux o s can be installed/splitted in many patts where the orde isn't important, but the partition type and fs: Linux people must invest in the goal to make ex-W$ people understand what the differences/advantages of Linux (/Ubuntu) are, not to try to turn our different approach/concept of things to W$ imitations. - One last example to argumentate about this: if you got 2 hds, under W$ hda/sda = C: and hdb/sdb = D: so ex-W$ will never understand why the positons of C D E etc still move depending on each individual computer: so definitely no, IMHO there's nothing wrong with our hda/da conception of naming. YP -- ubuntu-be mailing list / mailto:ubuntu-be@lists.ubuntu.com You can find list info and your subscription configuration options at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be