why not a partition assignment mode?

[Mateusz Marzantowicz]

On 06.12.2012 08:21, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2012-12-05 21:44 (GMT-0800) Adam Williamson composed:
>
>> Erm. Really? Are you sure we're not talking at cross-purposes here? I'm
>> not sure I recall seeing any installer other than Mandriva's which
>> offers a special version of its partitioning interface where you cannot
>> create or remove partitions, only select mount points for existing
>> partitions. That is what the OP is describing.
>
> For those unfamiliar, Mageia as a fork of Mandriva retained the same
> installation cmdline option "readonly=1". Using it presents the
> following partitioning windows during installation, quite logically,
> prior to software selection:
>
> #1 http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/mgaReadonly1s1.png
> #2 http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/mgaReadonly1s2.png
>

Sorry, but I can't see any usability gain here. Choosing only devices
that you want to partition, reduces number of things/partitions you must
deal with or you can accidentally corrupt.


Mateusz Marzantowicz