Description of problem: An existing Windows 7 system partitions appear in Manual Partition under Unknown, thus is misidentified. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Base Fedora-18-TC1-x86_64-Live-Desktop.iso, plus used koji to add anaconda-18.37.2-1.fc18.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Windows to a whole empty disk using default path. 2. Boot F18 livecd, update anaconda to 18.37.2-1, launch, head to Manual Partitioning. Actual results: Windows 7 partitions are listed under Unknown. Expected results: Windows 7 partitions are listed under Windows or Windows 7.
Proposing as NTH: Since Unknown's contents are closed by default, it's non-obvious how to proceed in Manual Partitioning with an existing Windows installation. Differentiation between New Fedora and Existing Windows significantly improves the Ux, and hints at what the user's next step should be.
Created attachment 663316 [details] anaconda.log
Created attachment 663318 [details] program.log
Created attachment 663319 [details] storage.log
Created attachment 663322 [details] storage.state
+1 NTH Anything we can do to increase the chances some *doze user migrates to Fedora should be encouraged.
This was really set up to display additional Linux installations, but could probably be adapted for anything that os-prober understands. However, that seems unlikely to me to be done for F18.
Discussed at 2012-12-19 NTH review meeting: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-bugzappers/2012-12-19/f18final-blocker-review-6.2012-12-19-17.02.log.txt . Agreed this would be nice but probably isn't worth the risk of poking partitioning code this late, and clumens doesn't think it's likely to get done anyway, so rejected as NTH.
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Chris, do you know if this is still valid? I don't have a Windows install handy to check.
It's still showing up under Unknown. Question is whether that's the best UI/UX to indicate it.