Anthony E. Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In fact, I explicitly told Kickstart to *only* make partitions on > > the boot disk drive. It has no good reason to mess with the > > partition tables of disk drives that it is not putting partitions > > onto.
> You're evadng the point. No, I am not. > You could not imagine a case where it would make sense for kickstart > to do what it did. I pointed out two cases. I said that I cannot imagine a case where "I would want all partitions on all disk drives to be removed during an OS install". Despite your claims, I still would never want all partitions on all disk drives to be removed during an OS install. Not for the two cases that you provided (#2 of which is true for me all of the time, by the way), nor for any case. > Are there alternate ways to handle those two cases? There are not just alternate ways -- there are far better ways. > Sure, but that's not the point. Yes it is. The point is that software should be very conservative about destroying data. Especially large amounts of it. > The point is that in those cases, kickstart's behavior would be > entirely reasonable. No it wouldn't. It is never reasonable to destroy large amounts of data without being quite sure that that is what the user wants. > I agree that the interface could be improved, and I understand your > point of view on this, but I don't share it. If you understood it, you could scarcely disagree with it. Hence, you don't understand it. > I have never done this kind of automated installation *precisely* > because I did not want the installation routine to make decisions for > me. Now you are making no sense at all. First of all, Kickstart does nothing that the interactive Red Hat installer doesn't do. The exact same issue comes up in the interactive installer. Are you saying that you don't use the Red Hat installer at all? Furthermore, you say that you won't use Kickstart because it "makes decsisons for you". I stand here saying that it should't make decisions for you. You disagree with me and say that it *should* make those decisions for you, and then you go on to say that you won't use it because it works the way that you say it should work. What kind of sense is that supposed to make? > It seems we look at this from different perspectives. Yes, from the right perspective and from the wrong perspective. |>oug -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
