From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 10 8:14:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from softweyr.com (softweyr.com [208.247.99.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2507737B40B for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 08:14:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from zaphod ([204.68.178.35] helo=softweyr.com ident=9aa4dfe30d29a6e7919b0a4dff55d2d9) by softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15JzIj-000FGK-00; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:19:49 -0600 Message-ID: <3B4B1B66.C011BF2B@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:12:38 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Moran Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral References: <20010706144935.A61843@xor.obsecurity.org> <3B4650D0.97F10B83@bellatlantic.net> <20010707002340.B16071@widomaker.com> <20010707004731V.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <3B49F8D5.2C9BFA73@mindspring.com> <3B4A0124.26025FB5@iowna.com> <3B4A1423.E8E365E@mindspring.com> <86ofqth6p3.fsf@hades.hell.gr> <3B4A7D9C.A64230D9@softweyr.com> <3B4B07DE.4801D208@iowna.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Moran wrote: > > Wes Peters wrote: > > > Oh, come now. FreeBSD's disk partitioning has always sucked. It does suck > > somewhat less than many Linux linstallers, and a lot less than the OpenBSD > > installer, but it still shoves way too many details and options at the > > average user. Something akin to PartitionMagic would be an ideal way to go, > > given unlimited resources to throw against this particular problem. > > Now, I've never used partition magic, but I (personally) find the > FreeBSD > partition program in sysinstall to be the easiest one I've ever used. > What should be changed to make it easier? "How much of this disk do you want FreeBSD to use? ___%" Was that really so difficult to imagine? Better yet, a nice graphical view of the disk and the 4 possible entries in the partition table. Allow the user to grab the ends of partitions we can manipulate and move them around, either through keyboard navigation or with a mouse. Focus on the task we're attempting to accomplish: slicing the disk into 1 to 4 differnt logical parts, rather than on the crufty underlying details. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message