On Thursday 31 December 2009, Mike Chambers wrote:
On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 08:25 -0600, Mike Chambers wrote:
> At the bottom of that window when you make your choice, there is a box
> that says (paraphrasing) - Review modifications - that you can check
> to make sure it's doing the right thing. And if it's not, you can
> modify what is going on and change it, or at least hit back button and
> choose a different option. (this box won't appear if you customize
> obviously)
Ya know, after reading this and discussing on irc, actually that box
needs to either move up higher or actually just be automatically
included in partitioning as sure it's not that much more bigger deal to
include?
That might not be a bad idea. That being said, I've been using linux since
before RH stopped releasing free versions for home use and I have to say, I
haven't had a real problem with it. OTOH, I almost always customize so I do
NOT blow everything away and start from scratch. I have my "home" partition
information almost from the very first linux install I ever did. Granted
it's not on the same *drives* but the data is still there, due to having a
separate partition for everything!
I can see both sides of this. I don't think it would hurt anything to have
a *little* hand-holding by the installer, something to the effect of "If you
don't want to blow everythign away and start from scratch, choose a
different option" when you just accept the default. OTOH, I don't really
want to turn Fedora into the "Microsoft" of linux where you don't have to
expend any brain power to install!