On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 11:55 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 12/03/2012 10:44 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > At no point in all that did you actually assign a mount point to it. I > > think you may be hitting the label/mount point confusion here. 'Boot' is > > not a mount point: it is the label of that partition. If I'm reading > > this correctly, at this point in the process, you have nothing set to be > > mounted at /boot. All you've done is say you'd like to format the > > partition called Boot in your existing F18 install, but you haven't said > > you'd actually like to use it in the new install in any way. > > "Boot" is not a label on the file system, it is a label of the UI > widget. I do not use labels on my file systems and there is not one on > my existing F18 install. Ah - I guess anaconda is extracting it from the fstab data, then. This is clearly confusing people, though I don't off-hand see how to improve it. This is anaconda identifying the existing partitions for you - it's telling you 'this is the partition that is /boot on your existing installation'. > >> >At this point a "Boot 500MB" partition is added, but the old "ext4 > >> >500MB" partition line is still displayed. > > Well yes, you didn't say that partition should be removed. Why would it > > disappear? > > Instead of adding an additional UI widget item for a partition, I expect > the existing partition UI widget to be updated. In fact, when you > navigate back to the old partition setup, and then back to the new > partition setup, the duplicate UI widget is gone. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883076 > > > > >> >1) The logic behind the steps required to entire custom partitioning is > >> >wordy. It should be a simple step of asking the user "Do it for me!" or > >> >"Let me do it!" and not a couple paragraphs of text no one will read. > > So, wait, we have a couple of people in the thread suggesting that what > > the installer needs is more explanatory text, and now you're suggesting > > that explanatory text is wordy paragraphs no one will read?:) > > I deal with end users of all backgrounds every day. People don't read > *anything* you give them. People that say otherwise have been > programming in basements for too long. > > > I've actually suggested that to dlehman myself, but apparently Mo wasn't > > keen on it, but I haven't discussed it directly with her. A compromise I > > suggested was to name the expander more clearly. 'Customize' gives you > > no idea what's behind it. > > That is unfortunate. What's the purpose of having 50% of the screen be > blank? I don't want to put words in other people's mouths - especially not at third hand (Mo to David to me) - so I'm not going to answer that. I'll let the devs speak directly for themselves if they want to. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
