On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 23:45 +0100, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 04:15:02PM -0600, Jeff Vian wrote: > > > > there it is NOT available to the novice who just follows the bouncing > > ball thru the screens. > > fdisk should not be used by a "novice who just follows the bouncing > ball thru the screens". Under any circumstances. > I've guided people through it on the phone but leaving them on their > own is evil, plain and simple. > > Emmanuel > I agree, but that hardly means either you or I will be available to guide all new users. Where fdisk is at present requires at least a tiny clue to get to it. As I understand it, the extreme power and ease of destroying a drives partitions inadvertently was part of the reason for taking it out of the install menus. I also think they intended to make it as easy for a brain dead or inexperienced user to install as Winblows is by removing things that require a clue to select properly from the process, which is why autopartition is one of the choices. I am comfortable with the ability to make choices, but I do not want the install process for linux to become as rigid and clueless as we see in Microsoft (and Microsoft compatible) products.
