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Quoting "Adrian Chadd" <adrian@freebsd.org>:

> I totally get it.
>
> However, an installer is user-facing (here), as well as system-facing.
> As much as I understand the logic behind it, it is still going to
> surprise people to find that their partition tables are modified at
> any point before that final "commit".
>
> Linux installers manage to do it. :-)

But they do not get it right all the time. With RHEL and CentOS 5 I  
had a deterministic way of setting up virtual machines with LVM so  
they could not boot;-)

Just to lower the expectation a bit.

Regards
Peter