Bug 627389
Summary: | too many disks included in custom config screen | ||||||||||||||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Tom Horsley <horsley1953> | ||||||||||||
Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list> | ||||||||||||
Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||||||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||||||||
Priority: | low | ||||||||||||||
Version: | rawhide | CC: | anaconda-maint-list, jonathan, vanmeeuwen+fedora | ||||||||||||
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Hardware: | All | ||||||||||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||||||||||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||||||||
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Last Closed: | 2012-09-27 02:23:21 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||||||||
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Description
Tom Horsley
2010-08-25 22:30:02 UTC
A couple thoughts here: (1) Are you sure the sequence of events was basic storage, clearpart UI (that's what that's called, by the way), partition type selection? The intended ordering is basic storage, partition type selection, clearpart UI. (2) With the next rebuild of anaconda for F14 and rawhide, the clearpart UI will be skipped if you do custom partitioning. I believe that should take care of this bug. (3) I think you misunderstand the purpose of the screen in question. You're not selecting which drives you want to be part of the installation. You're selecting which drives should be cleared (partition table wiped, etc), and which should be left alone but still available for mounting. This is useful if you've got data drives you want mounted but otherwise untouched vs. drives to be used for installing the system. The text at the top should make that at least somewhat clear. If you want to have anaconda completely ignore certain disks for all of installation, you have to select "Specialized" way at the beginning. It used to be that you'd get the filter UI regardless of which you selected there, but that was deemed to be confusing for regular users. Oh well. Created attachment 441341 [details]
screen 4
Just to disambiguate everything I took screenshots of the VNC client
as I went through the install again. Here's the 1st relevant screen where
I selected basic storage devices.
Created attachment 441342 [details]
screen 5
In the next screen (5) I tell it I am doing a fresh install.
Created attachment 441343 [details]
screen 9
I then go through hostname, timezone, and password screens and wind up at
screen 9 where I select custom layout.
Created attachment 441344 [details]
screen 10
The next screen is the "two column" screen 10. Here I classify
the usb drive as data only and the seagate and western digital drives
as installable (since I have no idea which is which).
Created attachment 441345 [details]
screen 11
Then I get to screen 11 with all the disks and partitions, and here I
am saying I want to format a partition on the usb drive (which the
previous screen classified as a mount only drive).
It sure looks as if it is going to be willing to let me do that
(but I didn't actually try it since I don't want to format that
drive :-).
Personally I could do without screen 10, especially for a custom
partitioning. I'd just as soon go directly to screen 11.
And, in f15 beta, I no longer see screen 10, so this report is probably moot. This should be fixed up as part of newui. |