On 6/15/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
Yes, after thinking a lot and getting suggestions from others, i think we should make Swap as Optional and only Root partition as mandatory. I will change according to that in YIS Gui.
If you choose not to have a swap partition, then we should put up a warning.
Not mandatory. I can rant all day about why you should have swap, but the
bottom line is only root should be mandatory. We should give the freedom for
the user to create a poorly configured system ( ext2 / only ) or a well
defined system with multiple partitions, filesystem types, swap, (someday LVM
and RAID). As long as it boots. And even then we should not let users
configure a system that does not boot without warnings.
Yes, after thinking a lot and getting suggestions from others, i think we should make Swap as Optional and only Root partition as mandatory. I will change according to that in YIS Gui.
David
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 01:04, Mark wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 June 2006 06:29, Edward Johnson wrote:
> > i dont like swap being mandatory. i've never used a swap since i strted
> > on linux except when i tried linspire in which i didnt have much
> > controll.
>
> Perhaps, if we went with the idea of an explanation screen before the
> partitioning screen, then that could be explained? Something like mandatory
> is root, swap recommended on machines with less than 512mb ram (or 1gig).
> Then optional home etc and indicate what advantages there could be with a
> seperate home partition - e.g reinstalling allows you to keep stuff in the
> home partition if you have one....
> I would suggest only root is mandatory. On my main system, I try to avoid
> swap - I have 1gb ram and have never used the swap there. Even on this
> laptop, with 768mb, I don't see swap being used. For those who are involved
> in heavy graphics work - large photo manipulation for example - even 1gb
> ram may not be enough, so possibly mentioning swap for those users may be
> good?
>
> There are a few minor English issues - capitalisation where not required,
> occasional spelling mistakes etc. Nothing serious, but to get a
> professional look, that will need sorting.
>
> Overall, the new YIS looks nice - it will be good to see it live :)
> Not sure I personally like the large YIS composed of dots on the pages -
> but that is just me perhaps. Other than that - it looks great especially
> the partitioning section as I mentioned :)
>
> Some great feedback for you so far from people Chaks - good idea to ask a
> novice for their view Reid.
>
> Mark
>
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