Installer inadequacies

[Christopher Svanefalk]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 1:20 AM, Ondrej Majerech <oxyd.oxyd at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 18 January 2013 23:40, Roger <arelem at bigpond.com> wrote:
>
>> On 01/19/2013 09:13 AM, David A. De Graaf wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 01:26:36PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>>
>>>> David A. De Graaf wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Fedora 18.
>>>>>
>>>>> What a disaster!  What were they thinking when they threw away a
>>>>> perfectly good installer and inflicted this new User Interface on us?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>  It's simple, I had no problems, it just worked and I have a perfectly
>> good Fedora 18
>> Roger
>
>
> I also used it to install Fedora 18 onto a system with pre-existing
> partitions. I wanted it to newfs the old / partition that had contained F17
> root on it, mount and not wipe my /home, /boot, /boot/efi and swap, and not
> touch the Windows partition. These are all GPT partitions at that.
>
> What you do is that you choose the manual partitioning, then click each
> partition you want to use, and tick the "mount" checkbox (and tick the
> "wipe" checkbox, if you want to do that). The list of partitions under
> "Fedora 18" header on the left-hand side should fill up with the partitions
> that you want.
>
> I have to agree that UI-wise it is a disaster, though. For one thing, the
> UI was very unexpected to me, and while I enjoy the change in the rest of
> the installer UI, I prefer to know exactly what I'm doing when it comes to
> partitioning. I didn't really know what I was doing this time; I clicked
> random stuff, hoped that it would work, and it did.
>
> It would be very welcome if the installer at least showed me some review
> of the changes to the partitions it was going to do. You know, that simple
> table every other GUI partitioning tool I have ever used shows you before
> touching your drive: "I'm going to mount /dev/sda5 to /, and put a shiny
> new ext4fs on it; I'm going to mount /dev/sda4 to /boot, /dev/sda1 to
> /boot/efi, /dev/sda7 to /home, /dev/sda6 as swap and not wipe any of these.
> Is this what you want? [Yes, proceed] [No, no, oh god, no! Let me change
> that!]". This simple summary of changes would have made me a lot more
> comfortable with the new installer experience.
>
> That's at least as far as I'm concerned. Fortunately, I don't have RAID or
> encrypted partitions.
>
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Oh for crying out loud, would you people STOP reinforcing my hunch to put
off moving to F18 for another month?

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Christopher Svanefalk

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