Re: FC3 working anaconda todo

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Make it an optional screen.  *If* they selected that a partition is
encrypted, only then go to an additional screen.  So it's by choice... 
if you don't care about the feature, then you don't have to wade through
the dialog.

Joshua


On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 12:56:37PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 02:53 +0000, W. Michael Petullo wrote:
> > For what its worth, I just checked a patch into Red Hat's Bugzilla that  
> > adds encrypted root filesystem support to mkinitrd:
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124789
> > 
> > This is one half (the easier half for me to hack) of adding encrypted  
> > root filesystem support to Fedora.  The other half is anaconda.
> 
> Actually, the difficult part is how you display this to a user and
> provide a relatively clean user experience with it.  Complicating a UI
> that's already too complicated is just going to make things worse, not
> better (and partitioning is currently in the "too complicated" category)
> 
> Jeremy
> 
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