On Thursday 15 June 2006 10:17, Chakkaradeep C C wrote: > Hi all, > > On 6/15/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you choose not to have a swap partition, then we should put up a > > warning. > > Not mandatory. I can rant all day about why you should have swap, but the > > bottom line is only root should be mandatory. We should give the freedom > > for > > the user to create a poorly configured system ( ext2 / only ) or a well > > defined system with multiple partitions, filesystem types, swap, (someday > > LVM > > and RAID). As long as it boots. And even then we should not let users > > configure a system that does not boot without warnings. > > Yes, after thinking a lot and getting suggestions from others, i think we > should make Swap as Optional and only Root partition as mandatory. I will > change according to that in YIS Gui.
See... peer pressure does work. ;-) -David -------------------------- Life is hard. Get a helmet. > David > > > On Tuesday 13 June 2006 01:04, Mark wrote: > > > On Tuesday 13 June 2006 06:29, Edward Johnson wrote: > > > > i dont like swap being mandatory. i've never used a swap since i > > > > strted > > > > > > on linux except when i tried linspire in which i didnt have much > > > > controll. > > > > > > Perhaps, if we went with the idea of an explanation screen before the > > > partitioning screen, then that could be explained? Something like > > > > mandatory > > > > > is root, swap recommended on machines with less than 512mb ram (or > > > > 1gig). > > > > > Then optional home etc and indicate what advantages there could be with > > > > a > > > > > seperate home partition - e.g reinstalling allows you to keep stuff in > > > > the > > > > > home partition if you have one.... > > > I would suggest only root is mandatory. On my main system, I try to > > > > avoid > > > > > swap - I have 1gb ram and have never used the swap there. Even on this > > > laptop, with 768mb, I don't see swap being used. For those who are > > > > involved > > > > > in heavy graphics work - large photo manipulation for example - even > > > 1gb ram may not be enough, so possibly mentioning swap for those users > > > may > > > > be > > > > > good? > > > > > > There are a few minor English issues - capitalisation where not > > > > required, > > > > > occasional spelling mistakes etc. Nothing serious, but to get a > > > professional look, that will need sorting. > > > > > > Overall, the new YIS looks nice - it will be good to see it live :) > > > Not sure I personally like the large YIS composed of dots on the pages > > > - but that is just me perhaps. Other than that - it looks great > > > especially the partitioning section as I mentioned :) > > > > > > Some great feedback for you so far from people Chaks - good idea to ask > > > > a > > > > > novice for their view Reid. > > > > > > Mark > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > yoper-dev mailing list > > > yoper-dev@lists.yoper.com > > > https://morpheus.pingos.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yoper-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > > yoper-dev mailing list > > yoper-dev@lists.yoper.com > > https://morpheus.pingos.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yoper-dev _______________________________________________ yoper-dev mailing list yoper-dev@lists.yoper.com https://morpheus.pingos.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yoper-dev
