On 23.02.2015 01:19, Alex Regan wrote: > Hi, > > On 02/22/2015 06:43 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Heinz Diehl <htd+ml@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On 22.02.2015, Chris Murphy wrote: >>> >>>> Windows, OS X installers have maybe 2-3 total layouts between them. >>>> And their installers are completely, totally, bullet proof. They don't >>>> ever crash, or ask the user to create required partitions, they always >>>> succeed in their penultimate goal which is to install a bootable OS. >>> >>> Frankly, the vast majority of the users of those operating systems >>> aren't even capable of installing them by themselves. >> >> The users don't know these things because they don't have to know >> them, not the other way around. There's no benefit in them knowing >> such things it's not intrinsically valuable knowledge for the >> majority. It's sufficient that a scant minority know such things. >> >> Look at even Android and cyanogen. Look at the reinvention of all OS's >> for mobile devices and how much simpler things are when constraining >> choices. Chromebooks are in that same category. Simple. Just works. >> They picked a layout and stuck with it. >> >> And that's not to say the layout of my cyanogen phone is exactly >> simple, it uses GPT partition scheme, and has 28 partitions. (Of >> course that's not by my choice, I had no say.) > > On a somewhat-related note, is it now possible with F21 to create a > RAID1 /boot? > > I can see this as being one reason for an "escape to parted/fdisk" option. > > I'm curious why this option has been so elusive for anaconda over the > years? A situation where a failed /dev/sda in an otherwise RAID5 system > is really unfortunate and requires a whole lot of extra work when things > go bad. > > Thanks, > Alex > EXTLINUX RAID1 intro https://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2013-June/msg00032.html At the time this worked for me. ;) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
