Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 18:04:32 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> To: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New installation script Message-ID: <CAGH67wTVUotdDfRXJn4f6UhP6hfZ5u4Ax7346X_2dZWMvh2DnQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1td=69XHSir1kr62yhhzXKk3YrRcVQrZgqnF48uVnCvVw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAN6yY1td=69XHSir1kr62yhhzXKk3YrRcVQrZgqnF48uVnCvVw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> wrote: > I have installed 9-Beta1 using the new installation tool and I am > generally happy with it. > The new dialog cause me to need a few more key-strokes because I was > so used to the > old behavior, but it really is more intuitive and I would not want to > see the old behavior > restored. I'll get used to it soon. > > I do have a couple of issues with the new installation tool, though. > 1. After completing the partition design I am presented with the > option to "Save" the > partitions. It is not at all cleared that "Save" actually creates the > partitions and newfses > the file systems. I suggest changing "Save" to "Commit" or Execute". > These are far > clearer and more frightening. "Save" sounds too safe, not like you are > about to update > basic disk structure and may be about to make any data on the disk unusable. > > 2. I was installing 9 into an existing set of partitions. (I > understand that this is NOT > typical.) First the system asks me about adding a partition. Oops! I > selected the only > option that was not clearly wrong, "Cancel". I was not at all sure > that it was what I > wanted, but it was. I have no idea how to improve this and it's > probably not worth > spending much time think about it. But the next step was confusing. > > I selected each of the existing partitions that I was going to use and > selected modify to > enter the name of the partition (/, /var, /usr, /tmp). I then quit and > selected the not > scarey "Save". I proceeded, but thought the "Save" was rather fast. > Then the install failed > because the partitions were already populated. I ended up re-booting > and then going > through each partition and deleting it and then selecting the slice > and creating it again. > While not a big deal, it seemed like the Modify to name the partitions > should have > triggered the newfs that was not done. > > I think my first point is pretty important. The second is far less so. > > The install went pretty well and I am generally very pleased with the > new installer. It's > certainly an improvement over the old one! Thanks to the folks who worked on it. One of the things that's still a problem as well (since you're talking about it here) is that the partition editor assumes that all partitions are properly formatted, etc, when specifying just a mountpoint. One needs to trash the MBR / GPT metadata and start over from the beginning. GPT partitions have issues too with incomplete partition schemes (i.e. user deletes a GPT partition out of an existing setup, etc) because unfortunately the "boot" partition gets created improperly the 2nd+ time around and/or gets created multiple times for some whacky reason (I don't know why this happened, but it did!). Thanks, -Garrett
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