On 02 Aug 2002 12:09:16 +0200, Pixel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sridhar Dhanapalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Thirdly, would it be possible to make the rescue disc and installation
> > kernels to automatically detect software RAID from superblocks? That would
> > make installation and configuration MUCH easier.
>
> hard to do. Hardware raid must be built-in the kernel for this, and we
> won't do this for space pbs.
>
> another solution would be to have something alike what i now do at
> install...
How is it done at install? From what I understand, it is DiskDrake that does the
detection instead of the kernel (good work there). If that can be made to work
with the rescue disc that would be cool. As a general rule, a user doesn't care
how something works provided it works well.
> > Fourthly, can you please make Diskdrake to more clearly represent extended
> > and logical partitions in the GUI? At present, logical partitions look the
> > same as primary ones, and the extended partition isn't shown at all. This is
> > confusing. PartitionMagic does a good job here: it shows extended partitions
> > as a primary partition but places logical partitions as boxes _inside_ the
> > extended.
>
> why should it show it differently? IMO showing this has no real value.
Maybe I'm just weird, but I like to have some control over my devices. At the
same time, I don't want to fiddle around with something esoteric like fdisk.
PartitionMagic fits my needs well, but I'm never comfortable with using non-free
software (one reason why I use Mandrake). DiskDrake comes very close to doing
what I want; the only thing missing is the ability to see extended partitions. I
like to know at a glance whether a partition is logical or primary. Maybe you
can have a 'novice'/'expert' option when using DiskDrake. As it stands, I think
there are far too many options for a beginner (e.g. zillions of filesystem
choices), and so they could benefit from something more streamlined (maybe this
is already done in the 'novice' install option? I don't know since I always
install as Expert). Not all 'novices' want to let DiskDrake automatically
allocate their drive space for them, so they need an interface that is usable
but not overly complex (e.g. provide <10 filesystem choices).
At the same time, the only thing (in my view) stopping DiskDrake from being
better than PartitionMagic is the ability to see and manipulate extended
partitions. Features like this should be confined to the 'expert' version.
>From what I have read, DiskDrake automatically places all of its partitions into
one extended partition. This is generally good. But what if I want to make some
FAT partitions for Windows, one of which I want to be primary (so I can boot)
and the others logical (I have such a setup on my two computers)? Can DiskDrake
do this easily?
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan
"I don't think it's right and I think it causes people to make decisions which
are not even in their best interest. A, we're not evil. B, we're not an empire."
-- Steve Ballmer, objecting to Microsoft being called "The Evil Empire"
