Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 19:06:16 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Sm rgrav) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/src/release/sysinstall needs YOU. :-) Message-ID: <29029.885956776@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "28 Jan 1998 00:50:01 %2B0100." <xzpiur579zq.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
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> Personally, I rather like the disk partitioner / label editor. Is > anyone fundamentally opposed to extracting it from sysinstall and > making a standalone utility of it? Before you do that, you might though also rewrite it to incorporate the disk selection, slice editing and partition labeling stuff all into one screen with "scrolling" regions like it should have been done in the first place. If you consider the 2.0 system installer, for example, you'll find that many people liked it because it integrated the three in one easy-to-figure out screen. The only reason I ended up breaking it into multiple screens was the fact that I was running out of screen real-estate and was too lazy to implement actual scrolling field behavior in curses, that's all. I think it could be returned to this with a little work and the end-result would be much easier disk configuration. The Novice installation shouldn't even bring up that screen by default, its choices being more along the lines of: Would you like to: 1) Use the entire disk for FreeBSD. 2) Use only unallocated space for FreeBSD. 3) Edit the partition table manually. with choices 1 and 2 automagically handling all the other configuration details as necessary based on how much space the user has available, etc. If we drop the user into the partition editing screen at all it should be because they either explicitly asked us to or because we really couldn't avoid it. Most beginning users neither know nor care about such details, they just know roughly how much disk they want to devote to FreeBSD. Jordan
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