Public bug reported:
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
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.
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
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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[Intrepid] Manual partitioner is a bit basic
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/260725
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