<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mmarzantowicz@osdf.com.pl" target="_blank">mmarzantowicz@osdf.com.pl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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</div>To be honest - it's very confusing. I've managed to install Fedora 18<br>
over my old Fedora 17 side by side with Windows 7 and I feel so geeky<br>
now. I spent about 15 minutes only partitioning (not changed anything,<br>
only reattached what was done in Fedora 17) in new installer. Now I'm<br>
very happy that I know all that things about different partition types,<br>
file systems, LVM's, raids, etc. but regular user is dead by now.</blockquote></div><br>The way I see it... any partitioning screen must start with the "real world" view (physical) disk drives detected, and the partitions detected on each, so the user sees for instance:<br>
-----<br>Your PC currently has:<br><br>Samsung 750MB IDE HD (MODEL. HDD_yxz, IDE PORT 1, MASTER)<br>which contains<br>LVM<br>WINXP (NTFS) xx GB<br>EXT3 (Linux Fedora xyz)<br>SWAP <br><br>Seagate 1TB SATA HD (MODEL. HST_yxz, SATA PORT 1)<br>
which contains:<br>EXT4 partition (999 MB)<br><br>-----<br><br>This is useful since on modern systems with lots of SATA ports or mixed IDE-SATA drives the users can´t always be 100% sure that the drive at the HDD bay is actually the one which is mounted first by the BIOS... (manual changing of boot order etc).<br>
<br>Then a series of "step by step" actions like:<br><br>-. Deciding if you want to ERASE (remove) any of the existing partitions to make room<br>-. Decide if you want to RESIZE any of the current partitions (ie to make room for install).<br>
-. Deciding WHERE you want to install Linux<br><br>In the end, a screen should be presented telling the user to CONFIRM he wants to install Linux on partition X on drive Y, and that this will result in loss of data on partitions x,y,z. (if any), before any data has been written to HD.<br>
<br>Something like the EaseUS Partition Manager, which I gave to my old man and he was able to repartition his HDD without any previous experience with such utils<br><br><a href="http://download.cnet.com/EaseUS-Partition-Master-Home-Edition/3000-2248_4-10863346.html">http://download.cnet.com/EaseUS-Partition-Master-Home-Edition/3000-2248_4-10863346.html</a><br>
<br>Screenshot:<br><a href="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2011/09/14/182965fd713d0a0e7914458106a437abbe56_1free-partition-manager_540x401.gif">http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2011/09/14/182965fd713d0a0e7914458106a437abbe56_1free-partition-manager_540x401.gif</a><br>
<br>just my $0.02<br>FC<br><br>