<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Zeuthen</b> <<a href="mailto:davidz@redhat.com">davidz@redhat.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 17:52 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:<br>> On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 17:42 -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote:<br>> > dragoran wrote:<br>> > > - no lvm/raid in livecd installer<br>> > >
<br>> > > thats the only point where I disagree I don't see a reason to do this.<br>> > > what do we gain by doing this?<br>> ><br>> > Ask not what we gain but what we lose: confused users, and one less
<br>> > screen in the install since most people just click right through it.<br>><br>> ... except that unless they explicitly click on something, there isn't<br>> any screen for them to click on and be confused by. And hell, before
<br>> they get there, they have to have clicked to do a custom partition<br>> layout.<br><br>... and the user goes "What's a custom partition layout?" and clicks the<br>button because he finds it "cool" and "interesting". Really,
<br>partitioning needs to be as simple as this slider based thing<br><br> +-----------------------------------------------+<br> | HOW MUCH FEDORA CAN YOU HANDLE? |<br> | |
<br> | Disk: [Internal FUJITSU MHV2120B SATA Disk|V] | <-- hide this<br> | | combobox if<br> | ^ | there is only
<br> | + Fedora | Other OS's + | one disk<br> | V |<br> | |<br> | [ ] Use entire disk for Fedora |
<br> | |<br> | [Cancel] [Next] |<br> +-----------------------------------------------+<br><br>No questions about boot loaders (just always add all the other OS'es to
<br>grub.conf). No mention of RAID or LVM (this doesn't mean we can't use<br>LVM for what we install to (though I'm always annoyed by this as a<br>developer); I just don't want to see the question asked in the UI).
</blockquote><div><br>but whats wrong with raid? and as jeremy already said dmraid?<br>"this is a desktop install raid is not supported anymore" does not make sense to me .<br>what about only adding it when there is more than 1 disk or when a dmraid device is found?
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