A Look at the Ubuntu Installer

[Evan]

I also like the concept of setting the language and keymap at boot. The
other minor adjustments in wording etc. also look good.

IMHO one of the most important possible adjustments to ubiquity would be to
recognize partitions by OS installed, and label them that way. I don't know
the code structure, but I imagine that it would be possible to integrate the
same OS detector that is used in the files&settings import manager.

Considerably more complicated would be to determine the mount points of
partitions without OSs on them. A possible example then would be:

Windows XP - 25GB
Ubuntu 7.04 - 25GB
(Windows D:) or (Ubuntu /home/data) - 150GB

I know the mount point detection is difficult (at least for non-linux OSs;
reading fstab shouldn't be too tricky), but the OS detection is far more
important.

Just my two cents.

On Jan 7, 2008 3:05 PM, Jonathan Musther <jmusther at gmail.com> wrote:

> Agreed.  I don't know why gparted was abandoned, it provided a more user
> friendly way to do things.  I like the proposal here too!
>
>
> On Jan 8, 2008 9:00 AM, Mackenzie Morgan < macoafi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Wow, that's very thorough.  I particularly like the partitioning
> > suggestions, since that seems to be the hardest thing to explain, and
> > Partman (that's what's in the new installer right?) feels uncomfortable.
> > Switching from GParted to Partman resulted in a more geeky interface, IMO.
> > I partition with GParted before starting the installer to avoid having to
> > use Partman now, but that thing where the live system auto-mounts the
> > partitions after you make them (which you showed in there) is really
> > annoying since it often fails on making the filesystem because of it (I'm
> > always racing to unmount the partitions as fast as possible).
> >
> >
> > On Jan 7, 2008 2:16 PM, Thorsten Wilms <t_w_ at freenet.de> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I did a walk-through and compiled issues, suggestions and several
> > > mockups regarding the Ubuntu installation:
> > >
> > >
> > > http://thorwil.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/ubuntu_installer_thorwil.pdf
> > >
> > > Any comments welcome. I'm willing to refine things where and if
> > > there's
> > > interest. I could file requests if that's deemed helpful.
> > >
> > > The document is actually a bit older, but I decided to wait past the
> > > holidays ;)
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