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On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Chris Lumens wrote:
+ title = P_("Unformatted DASD Device Found",
+ "Unformatted DASD Devices Found", c)
+ msg = P_("Format uninitialized DASD device?\n\n"
+ "There is %d uninitialized DASD device on this "
+ "system. To continue installation, the device must "
+ "be formatted. Formatting will remove any data on "
+ "this device. If you are unsure of your DASD "
+ "configuration, select No to exit the installer." % c,
+ "Format uninitialized DASD devices?\n\n"
+ "There are %d uninitialized DASD devices on this "
+ "system. To continue installation, the devices must "
+ "be formatted. Formatting will remove any data on "
+ "these devices. If you are unsure of your DASD "
+ "configuration, select No to exit the installer." % c,
+ c)
We should show the list of DASDs to be formatted to the user and not
just how many. Otherwise he can hardly make a decision whether to
continue or not. We should have a string of the device bus IDs or simply
the symlink names under /dev/disk/by-path/ for the DASDs in
self._dasdlist. This is a similar use case to the one we had a while
back where we show a dialog box at the end of the partitioner on which
partitions will be formatted with a file system.
I'd be worried about how that sort of dialog would scale if you have 50
or 100 or 1000 DASDs to be formatted.
It's s390, we could send this list of DASDs to be formatted to the printer.
I'm going to try a listbox and see how that looks.
+
+ rc = intf.messageWindow(title, msg,
+ custom_icon="error", type="yesno")
+ if rc == 0:
+ sys.exit(0)
I would like to see an else case here when there is no UI. As Hans
already pointed out, silently low-level formatting DASDs which do not
have any known format, is a bit hard. Suppose such DASD has an unknown
format with important data on it. Then we should not silently format it
and loose the data. A kickstart command as suggested by Hans sounds good.
How was this case handled with RHEL5?
We already have clearpart --initlabel. I'd rather reuse that than add
yet another command or option. Quick, someone explain how clearpart and
zerombr and all their options work in all cases!
I think 'clearpart --initlabel' should be sufficient to trigger the dasdfmt.
- --
David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Red Hat / Honolulu, HI
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