Fedora 7 vs 6 installation - disk layout

[Jerry Williams]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-devel-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-devel-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Thorsten Leemhuis
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 8:15 AM
> To: Development discussions related to Fedora Core
> Subject: Re: Fedora 7 vs 6 installation - remove final next
> 
> Gianluca Sforna schrieb:
> > On 1/11/07, David Timms <dtimms at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=177391
> >> There was no real discussion at the time in saying wontfix. I still
> >> think that this is essential to nppo {not  iss people off}. If anybody
> >> really wants and has a need (anaconda developers?) to display such a
> >> check box, it would make sense to have a checkbox on the previous
> screen
> >> "wait after resolving package selections", which would be by default
> not
> >> ticked.
> >> The only reason I can think of to not immediately go ahead after
> package
> >> selection is if the package resolution was not solvable -> then you
> >> would show a screen informing our user of the fact.
> >> Is there anyone can give a good reason for requiring the user to wait
> >> 2-5-10 minutes for package resolution to complete, and then actually
> ask
> >> the user if they want to "next" what they have already said they want
> to
> >> do, namely install fedora ??
> > +1
> > The time for deposolving will be probably shorter in F7 (AFAIK there
> > was a bug in yum slowing down that phase), bu I also think that "Next"
> > should really go away.
> 
> +1
> 
> > IMO, not even the checkbox is needed.
> 
> Having a "next" somewhere as the final question that means "I'll really
> start now and thus now might format you hard drive after you clicked
> next" is IMHO fine and needed, but yes, the current place is annoying.
> 
> CU
> thl

Now that you mention it there is another option that I would like to see
with the disk layout.  A lot of the times I am doing a new install over a
previous version of Fedora.  So it would be nice as an option to leave the
partitions alone, but format them and mount them in the same place.
I know that it shows me the previous mount point for normal partitions, but
I think LVM doesn't.