From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 10 23:17:46 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 801131065670 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 23:17:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kob6558@gmail.com) Received: from mail-yw0-f54.google.com (mail-yw0-f54.google.com [209.85.213.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 314E88FC12 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 23:17:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywo32 with SMTP id 32so51747ywo.13 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:17:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=TurqaEhFeqf5lGdgRjUuWfEFKOnJTqPp8aplhNVbLOc=; b=M4BaaaGE5IwjO32KDNcflr5gKH6AOpA9cbHGrWswKjr6wyCIEWEQVN18MDTZRE5H1m n2YPyayzTGWQhxVi3Y4jcYW57IxRAbZ0JjPMDHREt/kDNiiBnjpSvpzBbKjcQ3fIPhjX qm40BLV2qiN3D/YbnfmI2RoYcCksIDAFFL0pk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.11.9 with SMTP id 9mr99ybk.69.1313018265554; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:17:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.97.3 with HTTP; Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:17:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:17:45 -0700 Message-ID: From: Kevin Oberman To: Jonathan Anderson Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: nathanw@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installer Feedback: Partitioning X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 23:17:46 -0000 On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Jonathan Anderson wrote: > Hi, > > Love the new installer, but I do have a very small criticism of the > guided partitioning screen: it's unclear at first glance which of the > available buttons ("Create", "Delete", ..., "Exit") means "write the > partitions to disk and carry on to the next step". > > I presume that the point of a "guided" setup is to make it easy on > first-time FreeBSD installers; we might want to make it a little > easier still by labeling the relevant button "OK", "Save", "Next", > "Do It!" or something instead of "Exit". Create and Delete act on the layout design Nothing done at this point actually writes anything to the disk. I would suggest that "Exit" be changed to "Continue" and, as I have already suggested, "Save" on the next screen should be changed to "Commit" or "Execute". A one-liner on the screen stating that nothing at this point will write to the disk might be a good idea, though, just to make people more comfortable. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com