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FS#14423 - Installer partitions information
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Release Engineering
Opened by Mihai Militaru (akephalos) - Wednesday, 22 April 2009, 06:23 GMT
Last edited by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Thursday, 25 June 2009, 17:19 GMT
Opened by Mihai Militaru (akephalos) - Wednesday, 22 April 2009, 06:23 GMT
Last edited by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be) - Thursday, 25 June 2009, 17:19 GMT
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DetailsThe installer, at the point of mounting partitions, won't inform the user of any of their properties. The list could better contain, besides the device names, at least the size and current filesystem type, if not label and UUID, too. Some partitions can change the device order (in different configurations, usb drives, etc), the user would be stucked in trying to guess them.
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Closed by Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter_be)
Thursday, 25 June 2009, 17:19 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't fix
Additional comments about closing: archlinux-installer is deprecated.
AIF does this well.
Thursday, 25 June 2009, 17:19 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't fix
Additional comments about closing: archlinux-installer is deprecated.
AIF does this well.
- are you talking about aif or archlinux-installer?
- autoprepare or custom?
This is how it looks in aif, which looks quite okay I think:
http://users.edpnet.be/dieter/aif/aif-alpha_0.6-disks-overview-dia.png
autoprepare is obviously simpler by design.
Yes, I've used custom partition setup, my request applies to the case when the user needs to correctly identify previously created partitions containing precious data, before choosing mount points and installing. Also, it applies to an offline installation from scratch using the live image and running /arch/setup, not a special setup which enables the user to download custom installers.
That screenshot looks to be exactly what I was requesting (except UUID which, for the sake of simplicity, turns out to be a bad idea).