On 23.02.2014 03:33, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2014-02-22 18:49 (GMT-0700) Chris Murphy composed: > >>> "This crappy partioning GUI in the installer is does not give me the amount of control on partitioning desired by me." > >> I don't understand this. It's the most capable GUI partitioner + OS installer I've ever encountered, and I've used quite a few installers, yet maybe I'm missing something obvious? > > openSUSE? Nothing else comes close. To start with, it doesn't need even 500M > RAM to run. I've used it not so long ago on 384M, and seen anecdotes of > needing as little as 128M or 160M with swap available not so long ago. It's > built on the same YaST2 that's used for configuration in live installations. > Practically nothing is impossible in its installer GUI that's possible in its > live system configuration GUI. WRT GUI software selection during > installation, everything else is several orders of magnitude behind openSUSE. > I can't give full details about using its partitioner during installation, > because I use a proprietary partitioner to prepare all to be used in advance > of installation 99.6% of the time. It's easy to use to configure RAID, and to > select mount points and mount options, with a tree configuration that doesn't > confound by inexplicably repeating the same partitions under various > anti-sorted individual and grouped names the way Anaconda does. > The YaST Partitioner: - LVM, no comment - MD, OK! - BRTRFS, skinny - what is easily doable via 'btrfs-progs' Not so advanced. ;) poma -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
