On Wed, 2014-03-26 at 16:34 +0100, Alexander Volovics wrote: > I have been following the discussions about the workstation > part of Fedora.next and as anaconda installer was mentioned > as the model of things to come I tried an install of Rawhide > from a nightly build (this was not succesfull due to kernel > errors, but that is not relevant here). > > I do hope this version is not the sign of things to come > with regard to 'automatic partioning': it is no longer > possible to choose 'standard partitions' here. Anaconda > just blazes ahead with 'LVM'. (Custom partioning does > still provide this choice I see). > > Now I can understand using LVM on servers and of course it > would be nice to have on some desktops or even some laptops > for certain eventualities and for some users. > > But a lot of users are quite happy with 'fixed' solutions, > especially on laptops, and might not like this unnecessary > complication. And do not like or need LVM. > > I certainly don't and would like to see this option back > for 'automatic partitioning' so that I don't have to do > the unnecessary extra work involved with custom partitioning. > > I have no need of special disk layouts so I mostly do > quick uncomplicated default installs with automatic partitioning. Sorry, but I'm afraid that is the plan, yes. There've been pretty extensive discussions of this both here (test@) and on devel@ recently, which give the rationale. It is pretty easy to go through custom partitioning for this, though. It's only three or four extra clicks. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
