Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 10:12:05 +1200 From: Andrew Turner <andrew@fubar.geek.nz> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: Rostislav Krasny <rosti.bsd@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDInstaller snapshot Message-ID: <4468FCB5.2050103@fubar.geek.nz> In-Reply-To: <20060515143905.L38871@fledge.watson.org> References: <20060515150504.44b3a065.rosti.bsd@gmail.com> <20060515143905.L38871@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson wrote: > > Before adding some of my own user interface critiques, I wanted to > mention at the top of the e-mail that I'm very pleased the BSD > installer work is going on, it's well overdue! Onto a few minor > criticisms :-). > > On Mon, 15 May 2006, Rostislav Krasny wrote: > >> http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/bsdinstaller_install/16.png > > I'd like to see the partition type here simply be "FreeBSD". "Drago" > is likely to confuse, and Dragonfly actually uses the FreeBSD type, > rather than it being the Dragonfly type. See further comments below > on slices and partitions. I have a local change to just show FreeBSD. > >> http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/bsdinstaller_install/24.png >> http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/bsdinstaller_install/25.png >> >> I think the word "formatted" on the second screenshot should be >> changed to "created", because fdisk doesn't format partitions/slices. > > I tend to agree. While there is some benefit in using the DOS/Windows > vocabulary, I think it's better to use the same vocabulary as found in > existing FreeBSD documentation, including the handbook, man pages, > printed books, etc. In these dialogs, the device names should also be > specifically mentioned. Note that "Primary partition" is a confusing > term -- I'm not sure what it means, actually :-). The primary partition is the partition to install FreeBSD on. This is because the BSDInstaller can only install to one bsd slice currently. > >> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/bsdinstaller_install/22.png >> http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/bsdinstaller_install/26.png >> >> Does BSDInstaller support installtion on multiple slices or multiple >> physical disks? Sysinstall supports it. > > While I recognize the goal of providing a useful mapping to user-aware > notions, such as "partitions", I find the message in this dialog > confusing even as someone who in theory knows something about the > topic. Despite the limitations of calling fdisk partitions slices in > sysinstall, at least it was done mostly sort of consistently :-). I'd > like to see the installe consistently refer to "fdisk slices" and "bsd > partitions", and avoid using the words "slice" or "partition" in > isolation. I'll look in to changing the references. Andrew
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