> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Nick Holland > <n...@holland-consulting.net> wrote: > > Daniel Malament wrote: > >> On 10/22/2009 5:37 AM, William Boshuck wrote: > >>>> And here I thought I remembered the new installer being described as > easier to use. > >> > >>> It is. Were it not so quick it would be positively > >>> boring. Just don't set mount points for the partitions > >> > >> Perhaps I should clarify: IMO, not double-checking with the user about > >> what specifically to wipe, especially when it used to, is a step back in > >> 'usability' (in the Jakob Nielsen sense) - or to put it another way, > >> user-friendliness. > > > > I presume you are talking about this question: > > > > The next step *DESTROYS* all existing data on these partitions! > > Are you really sure that you're ready to proceed? [no] y > > > > This question was asked AFTER you had fdisk'd and disklabled your > > disk. By this point, the data had been already potentially destroyed, > > I thought this question quite silly, in that it implies data has been > > safe up to this point...no, it hasn't, you have potentially been > > destroying things all over the place. > > Hey Nick, > > I don't wish to contradict you here, but ... I usually do installs and > never upgrades. So what I do is keep /home out of the mount points in > the disklabel stage, go through install, then re-add /home. I recall a > while back, I did get to this stage and agreed to proceed and as the > partitions were being newfs-ed I realized I had forgotten and included > /home in the list. I ^C out before the /home slice was reached. I > restarted the install, this time doing it "correctly", and my data in > /home was OK! > > Might have been a fluke ... but, it is what it is.
You missed the point.
