Arch Linux

paulr

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Registered: 2007-03-23

Posts: 59

Suggestion for Arch Installer

I'm an Arch newbie ; not a Linux newbie though. It's great (thanks to all the devs) and to me seems *quicker* than my old Gentoo installation :-).

A suggestion for the installer (apologies if this is already in 0.8) which I don't think would be difficult to implement or risky (in terms of busting the installer). I got the idea from ubuntu which does this just before it goes off and installs.

The partitioning/formatting/mountpoint part of the installer works fine. My machine has two drives (sda and sdb) and before installing I copied everything to sdb, so I could use sda for arch. Obviously I don't want sdb formatted ;-)

My suggestion is that after you select "Done" in the partitioner, but before the drives are actually formatted, there should be a confirmatory screen that displays what drives you have, their mount points, and whether or not they are going to be formatted and with what ; so that the installer can be sure that they aren't going to zap a partition accidentally - or even (to make it simpler) "I am going to format sda1 sda5 sda8. Are you sure ?"

Aziere

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Registered: 2007-03-16

Posts: 23

Re: Suggestion for Arch Installer

As far as I remember. It does say that when you select mountpoints.

matersci

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From: Hellas

Registered: 2006-01-19

Posts: 169

Re: Suggestion for Arch Installer

0.8 installer has a confirmatory screen.