Ubuntu 10.10's installer looks rather nice

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 10/11/2010 08:51 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:44:49 -0500,
>   Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:
>   
>>> I think that is a misfeature. I don't want anything irreversible to be done
>>> until I say go.
>>>       
>> You know that Fedora has done partitioning/mkfs about halfway through
>> the install for a while now, right?  I don't see why there would be a
>> problem with letting that run in the background while continuing through
>> the questions.
>>     
>
> I forget which stuff gets done afterwards, since I haven't done a fresh install
> for a while now. (I mostly do yum upgrades and play with live USB images.)
> But I do remember a clear no/no go point where disk drive file systems get
> formatted. Depending on the file systems being used that can take a little
> bit of time to complete, but is short compared to the rest of the install.
>   
Actually formatting a large partition ( and >=1 TB disks are becoming 
more and more frequent) DOES take enough time to go boil a coffee.