low-hanging fruit
dragoran
drago01 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 16 21:41:17 UTC 2007
On 8/16/07, David Zeuthen <davidz at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 17:52 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 17:42 -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> > > dragoran wrote:
> > > > - no lvm/raid in livecd installer
> > > >
> > > > thats the only point where I disagree I don't see a reason to do
> this.
> > > > what do we gain by doing this?
> > >
> > > Ask not what we gain but what we lose: confused users, and one less
> > > screen in the install since most people just click right through it.
> >
> > ... except that unless they explicitly click on something, there isn't
> > any screen for them to click on and be confused by. And hell, before
> > they get there, they have to have clicked to do a custom partition
> > layout.
>
> ... and the user goes "What's a custom partition layout?" and clicks the
> button because he finds it "cool" and "interesting". Really,
> partitioning needs to be as simple as this slider based thing
>
> +-----------------------------------------------+
> | HOW MUCH FEDORA CAN YOU HANDLE? |
> | |
> | Disk: [Internal FUJITSU MHV2120B SATA Disk|V] | <-- hide this
> | | combobox if
> | ^ | there is only
> | + Fedora | Other OS's + | one disk
> | V |
> | |
> | [ ] Use entire disk for Fedora |
> | |
> | [Cancel] [Next] |
> +-----------------------------------------------+
>
> No questions about boot loaders (just always add all the other OS'es to
> grub.conf). No mention of RAID or LVM (this doesn't mean we can't use
> LVM for what we install to (though I'm always annoyed by this as a
> developer); I just don't want to see the question asked in the UI).
but whats wrong with raid? and as jeremy already said dmraid?
"this is a desktop install raid is not supported anymore" does not make
sense to me .
what about only adding it when there is more than 1 disk or when a dmraid
device is found?
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