How to interpret F18 Blocker criterion

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2012-11-06 at 14:33 +0000, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2012 09:30:41 -0500 (EST)
> Kamil Paral <kparal at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > > The F18 Blocker criteria contain:
> > > 
> > > The installer must be able to install into free space alongside an
> > > existing clean single-partition Windows installation and either
> > > install
> > > a bootloader which can boot into the Windows installation, or
> > > leave the
> > > Windows bootloader untouched and working
> > > 
> > > What must be understood under "single-partition"?
> > > 
> > > Alexander
> > 
> > The intended purpose is to say this should be a default Windows
> > installation, which usually consist of a single NTFS partition.
> > 
> > But we should probably improve the description, because recent
> > Windows (at least Win 7) create two partitions - 100MB "System
> > Reserved" and then the rest of the space for "disk C".
> 
> If OEM, it will also have that restore partition,
> to reset to "factory default"  so maybe 3 partitions.

Restore partitions have been around forever. I don't count them as part
of the Windows install, because they're really not, they're lower-level
than that. It's what you use when the Windows install falls over. :)
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