Disk Druid - Fedora flame #1
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Thu Jan 27 03:11:16 UTC 2005
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Jim Cornette wrote:
> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Jeff Vian wrote:
>>
>> IIRC, DD does tell you what the label is when you edit the partition, but
>> it does not assign the label to the partition when you first hit the main
>> screen. My memory says that you have to edit each partition and select the
>> label by hand, although the old label is reported as a hint. (Of course,
>> my memory could be wrong...) My suggestion was that existing labels be
>> assigned by default.
>
> I like it only revealing the prior label information. I run a lot of
> installations and auto-assignment would destroy the intended system to
> shreds.
Just goes to show, you can't please everyone every time. I'm not sure,
but I think auto assignment would have helped the OP. Of course, it needs
to be overridable, and in such a way that kickstart or other mass
installation strategies could work easily. The questions are, which
constituency gets inconvenienced and how can the inconvenience be
minimized?
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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