Bug 57339

Summary:	text-based fdisk UI confuses some
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Steve Bonneville <sbonnevi>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	7.2	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Description Steve Bonneville 2001-12-10 17:10:44 UTC

Suggested installer enhancement.

In the classes I teach, the most common UI confusion for students while
doing a text-based install happens during disk partitioning.  If they
want to use fdisk to repartition the disk, they're presented with a ncurses
dialog which highlights their drive and has three buttons: "OK", "Edit", 
and "Cancel".  

At this point the mistake most of them make is to select "OK", which sends
them straight on to Disk Druid for mount point selection.  What they really
wanted was "Edit", to drop them to a fdisk prompt.  

The process probably needs to be clarified somehow.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2001-12-12 20:07:10 UTC

Hmm... we should possibly consider going to using Next/Back as opposed to
OK/Back generally throughout the TUI install.

Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2002-03-26 17:29:55 UTC

Deferring to future release.

Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:48:18 UTC

Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.