On Wed, September 12, 2012 7:08 am, The Wanderer wrote: > On 09/12/2012 09:55 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> On Mi, 12 sep 12, 08:57:37, The Wanderer wrote: >> >>> Admittedly, not presenting the user with such a prompt at all would be >>> less >>> off-putting than either, but we may not be able to avoid that unless >>> we >>> relegate the ability to control partitioning/filesystems to the full >>> expert >>> install - and there may well be people who would prefer to handle their >>> own >>> partitioning, but would not be comfortable with all the details of the >>> expert install process. >> >> One shortcut could be added: if the system has only one mass storage >> device[1] display a simple prompt to choose between wiping everything >> (and >> doing a all-in-one partition install without other questions asked) or >> proceeding to partitioning as usual. > > But how do you phrase such a prompt so that it won't be confusing (or > otherwise > off-putting) to our hypothetical "user who has no idea what a partition > is"? > > As I understand the discussion so far how to avoid putting off that > hypothetical > user is precisely the issue at hand. > >> [1] more than one mass storage device can mean that the user has at >> least >> some knowledge of partitions and also the risk of doing something wrong >> is >> too big. > > There's also the consideration that an "all in one partition" install > isn't > necessarily the smartest thing in the first place - a separate /tmp/ at > the very > least would seem like a good idea. But the question of what the default > "the > user didn't want to handle partitioning at all" configuration should be is > a > separate one, and I may not know as much about the subject as I think I > do.
I would be an advocate of at least a separate /home partition in the 'Newbie Install'. Regards, Weaver -- "It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government." -- Thomas Paine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/f2d7014a4626ccca47d58df8d36a679b.squir...@fruiteater.riseup.net
