Proposal for New Installation Features

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I have worked through MANY redhat and fedora installations over the
years, most of them installing new over existing /boot, /, and swap
partitions (I always protect my data on their own partition, /usr/local,
which is not formatted).  It has always been an irritant that a clean
install defaults to completely wipe out one's data if not careful.  The
menu has improved but I would I would like to see the following features
for a standard Fedora install:

1.  If there are any linux partitions found, the default should be to
customize the linux partitions.  Let the user change that if desired.

2.  During a custom partitioning selection, any existing partition label
should be retained, even though the partition is formatted.

I will file these as feature requests if there is any support for them
on this list.

Thanks.

-Tom

P.S.  I have now installed F7 on one laptop (wireless not configured
successfully yet, but Matthew Saltzman on this list is helping) and four
i86 boxes and am pleased with the results.  I had to use a hard drive
installation on two old boxes because of the installation failure to
recognize the DVD after installation started, but newer boxes have
worked fine.


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