Proposal for New Installation Features
Browder, Tom
Tom.Browder at fwb.srs.com
Wed Jun 6 18:19:50 UTC 2007
I have worked through MANY redhat and fedora installations over the
years, most of them installing new over existing /boot, /, and swap
partitions (I always protect my data on their own partition, /usr/local,
which is not formatted). It has always been an irritant that a clean
install defaults to completely wipe out one's data if not careful. The
menu has improved but I would I would like to see the following features
for a standard Fedora install:
1. If there are any linux partitions found, the default should be to
customize the linux partitions. Let the user change that if desired.
2. During a custom partitioning selection, any existing partition label
should be retained, even though the partition is formatted.
I will file these as feature requests if there is any support for them
on this list.
Thanks.
-Tom
P.S. I have now installed F7 on one laptop (wireless not configured
successfully yet, but Matthew Saltzman on this list is helping) and four
i86 boxes and am pleased with the results. I had to use a hard drive
installation on two old boxes because of the installation failure to
recognize the DVD after installation started, but newer boxes have
worked fine.
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