F21 partitioning circus

[jd1008]

On 02/22/2015 12:25 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 14:13:28 -0500
> Matthew Miller wrote:
>
>> * how well it succeeds _is_ another question.
> I gave up on installing on physical hardware as soon as the new
> anaconda first showed up. I don't trust a single thing the
> hopelessly obnoxious interface shows me and have no idea
> what on earth it is going to do to my disks. (Being
> forced to click the "Done" button way before I'm done
> was the straw that broke the camel's back :-).
>
> Instead, I install in a virtual machine where anaconda is free
> to trash the virtual disks in any way it sees fit, then I
> copy the virtual images to partitions I create myself
> adjust the grub.cfg and fstab files and boot using the
> configfile option of a stand alone grub instance.
Seems like the Anaconda UI could provide much clearer
explanations of available choices, and the consequenes
of those choices (i.e. their impact on the drives/partitions
that are VISIBLE to Anaconda).