** Description changed: - Binary package hint: ubiquity - I find the manual partitioner on the Alpha 4 intrepid CD rather basic compared to the partitioners I've seen on other distros; both in terms of help provided to the user and of simple features. My system had two clean discs (I'd just zero'd the first few blocks). I was using the manual partitioner because I didn't want to use the whole disc (I wanted to leave some free space and a free paritition); that's probably not an unusual requirement and it seems excessive to - have to go for a manual install with no help just because of that + have to go for a manual install with no help just because of that. - 1) The manual install should provide an option to start with what would have been the recommended layout. - 2) It should provide some help and prompting - e.g. if you select a / mount point it should advise on minimum sizes. + The manual install should provide an option to start with what would + have been the recommended layout. + + (This report previously also mentioned advising on a minimum size for /, + which is now covered separately by bug 290928.) I found being unable to change the size of a partition (one that I'd just said OK to, not one already on the disc) annoying; I'd created a 200MB /boot, 10G / and then 2G swap and at that point decided actually I could make / 15G - but I had to remove swap to do it; I'm fairly sure most other manual partitioner would have let me change sizes at that point easily. I think the lack of help/starting point is a big issue - for example people who understand basic partitioning but don't know what a Linux system would like would find it hard to set up a dual boot system even if they understood their other OS well. - - - Dave
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