On 2012/05/04 17:19 (GMT+0200) Wolfgang Bornath composed:
What exactly do you miss there (you have seen the "expert" button?) ?
As in partitioning step? I don't recall having any such option presented. I always partition in advance, and in Mandrake->Mandriva->Mageia initialize installation with readonly=1 on cmdline.
WRT "Advanced" on the select partitions to format page, it presents only the choice to check for bad blocks, not set blocksize, inode size, volume label or anything else I set to meet my needs by preparing partition(s) in advance of initializing an OS installation.
IMHO there is nothing missing or at presented at the wrong state of the installation procedure.
The start of a new release process as the old comes to a close is a good time to take a step back and try to see the process without color of familiarity. Of the conventional GUI installers I use with any frequency, Fedora's I like least, openSUSE's I like far and away the best, and Mandriva->Mageia's I put only moderately above Fedora's. I find package selection in all at best trying, at worst downright painful, and prefer cmdline upgrade via yum/urpmi/zypper to all of them, but often it's necessary to clean install, not least during development to identify installer issues such as the one Thierry Vignaud provided a patch to fix in bug 5725.
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