597726 – Less confusing installer idea

Bug 597726 - Less confusing installer idea

Summary: Less confusing installer idea

Status:	RESOLVED FEATURE

Alias:	None

Product:	openSUSE 11.3
Classification:	openSUSE
Component:	Installation (show other bugs)
Version:	Factory
Hardware:	PC openSUSE 11.3

Priority:	P5 - None Severity: Enhancement with 5 votes (vote)
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Assignee:	Arvin Schnell
QA Contact:	Jiri Srain

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Reported:	2010-04-19 11:27 UTC by ryan smith
Modified:	2010-04-20 08:50 UTC (History)
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Description ryan smith 2010-04-19 11:27:46 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 SUSE/3.6.3-1.2 Firefox/3.6.3

I have a feature request for the OpenSuse 11.3 installer. I found 11.2 installer to be very confusing. What I found confusing was the partition part and where it talks about sda1, sda2, etc. Most beginners won't even know what these mean.
My feature request is to make the installer less confusing by first displaying all the partitions and hard drives on a user's computer and users can select 1 or more partitions to install OpenSuse too like this:

Tick the drive/s | partitions you want to install OpenSuse on:
C: Label 20GB
D: Label 50GB
E: Label 1TB

After users have chosen the drives/partitions only then will the partition edit/creation options be shown, and they'll only apply to the drives/partitions a user chose before.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Arvin Schnell 2010-04-20 08:50:17 UTC

Please open a entry in openFATE, see: https://features.opensuse.org/