Colony 2

[Sami Haahtinen]

Lukas Sabota <punkrockguy318 <at> comcast.net> writes:
> Here are my thoughts on the installation process:
> 	* The partitioning went well, but I have two suggestions.
> 	The first: I had a hard drive which was 90% free, and 10% was swap.
> When I asked the partitioner to prepare the free space, the partitioner
> created an additional swap space.  The partitioner should check for swap
> space already available, and use that before creating a new swap space.
> A single swap partition can be used by multiple operating systems.

I noticed this aswell and meant to report a bug about this. 

But there is a problem with re-using the swap. There might be important data on
the swap aswell.

Although, this is really a problem for advanced setups. Consider this, there are
2 ubuntu setups on the same computer. Lets make it a laptop to make things more
clear. the user hibernates the other installation and puts the computer away for
the time being. Then takes laptop, and allows it to boot up. The new
installation has made itself the default OS and the computer boots up. The new
installation looks at the swap space and notices that there is hibernation
information, but it is for a different kernel and overwrites it. Voila, instant
data loss.

As said, it's not that common to have this kinds of setups, but dataloss is
something most of us do not want to risk.

> 	The second:  Why was ext3 chosen by default over reiserFS?

Well, we could debate over which journaled filesystem is the best. I'm not going
to speculate why ext3 is used over other filesystems. Usually there is a
reason.. Anyone?

Did you notice if the timezone information was displayed correctly? I haven't
tried the Colony 2 CD, but with a fairly recent daily cd the timezone
information displayed during the installation was always displayed as the BIOS
was set to UTC, even though the information was correctly set for the target
system. I didn't report it immediately and now i'm not sure if it has been fixed
already...

- S