A Look at the Ubuntu Installer

[Jonathan Musther]

One thing I've been thinking would be good for quite some time is creating
separate / and /home partitions by default.  So when a user selects "Use
entire disk", it would create a /home.  And certainly when a user creates a
/ and then creates another partition, it should be /home by default rather
than /boot (which I believe it is now).

On Jan 8, 2008 9:44 AM, Evan <eapache at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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