Ubuntu 10.10's installer looks rather nice

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Mon Oct 11 17:44:49 UTC 2010


Once upon a time, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> said:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:41:13 +0100,
>   "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Some of the things it does which are IMHO better:
> > 
> >  - starts disk formatting / copying / installing in parallel
> >    with asking user questions
> 
> 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.
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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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