On 05.03.15 08:32, Wen Lin wrote:
> Hi Erik,
>
> I came across the following "How-to" from Ubuntu support site. FYI. See if
> it can be of help?
Many thanks, Wen. According to that, the secret GUI obfuscation appears
to be that it is necessary to move the highlight from /dev/sda to "free
space" before the GUI will do anything other than cryptically refuse to
progress. I don't recall that "free space" was shown in my case, perhaps
due to the lacking partition table. I could go back and check, if it now
mattered much.
My patience with ratruns with blank walls lacking discoverability is
distinctly limited, and this just confirms my decades old antipathy
towards GUIs.
I'll make a note of the deficiency for future reference ... and then go
back to doing it with parted, I think. That will be much less dangerous
for my blood pressure, since any obstacle is discoverable, google-able,
and amenable to grubbing about in manpages.
Thanks again, for helping solve the mystery.
Erik
--
The meta-problem here is that the configuration wizard does all the approved
rituals (GUI with standardized clicky buttons, help popping up in a browser,
etc. etc.) but doesn't have the central attribute these are supposed to achieve:
discoverability. That is, the quality that every point in the interface has
prompts and actions attached to it from which you can learn what to do next.
- Eric Raymond, in "The Luxury of Ignorance."
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