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).
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 8, 2008 9:44 AM, Evan <<a href="mailto:eapache@gmail.com">eapache@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I also like the concept of setting the language and keymap at boot. The other minor adjustments in wording etc. also look good.<br><br>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.
<br><br>Considerably more complicated would be to determine the mount points of partitions without OSs on them. A possible example then would be:<br><br>Windows XP - 25GB<br>Ubuntu 7.04 - 25GB<br>(Windows D:) or (Ubuntu /home/data) - 150GB
<br><br>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. <br><br>Just my two cents.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Jan 7, 2008 3:05 PM, Jonathan Musther <<a href="mailto:jmusther@gmail.com" target="_blank">jmusther@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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!<div><div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 8, 2008 9:00 AM, Mackenzie Morgan <
<a href="mailto:macoafi@gmail.com" target="_blank">
macoafi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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).
<div><div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 7, 2008 2:16 PM, Thorsten Wilms <<a href="mailto:t_w_@freenet.de" target="_blank">t_w_@freenet.de</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi!<br><br>I did a walk-through and compiled issues, suggestions and several<br>mockups regarding the Ubuntu installation:<br><br><a href="http://thorwil.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/ubuntu_installer_thorwil.pdf" target="_blank">
http://thorwil.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/ubuntu_installer_thorwil.pdf</a><br><br>Any comments welcome. I'm willing to refine things where and if there's<br>interest. I could file requests if that's deemed helpful.
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