[GW-C] [ECOTONE] Re: rant of the day: installing fedora

[lee]

Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> writes:

> Fedora and Korora installers are the same, and, to be honest, they suck!
> I don't usually post such language, but in this case it's deserved!

That's going a bit far, imho.  It is awful when it comes to partitioning
and otherwise seems to work fine.

I guess the idea was to make installing easy, and it kinda does that. It
might help to remove partitioning from the installer.

For partitioning, a specialised application could be created,
independent from the installer.  It would allow to do everything that
might be needed and, if necessary, hand over required information (like
where to mount what) to the installer, using a well defined API.

Such an application won't be limited to be used with Fedora.  It could
be used with all distributions.  They all need partitioning, so why do
many distributions try to re-invent the wheel for that?  Who said when
that partitioning must be part of an installer?


Installers would simply show the users the existing partitioning and ask
them if they want to use it.  In case information from the partitioner
is available, the installer would show that, too, and offer to use it.

If the user doesn't want to use the information, the installer only
needs to ask them "Where do you want to install?" and let them pick a
partition or free space.  Unless it is too small, the installer installs
everything there.

If the user wants to use the information from the partitioner, the
installer uses that.


That's plain and simple.  Users wouldn't have to try to figure out with
every new version of an installer how they might get the partitioning
they want.

They could even save the information from the partitioner and reuse it.
They could prepare for installing several distributions when they are
partitioning and simply assign partitions to distributions.  It would be
easy to have many distributions installed at the same time.


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Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat)