On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, William Allen Simpson wrote:

> It appears that the group has reached consensus on the questions asked
> about the direction of systinst partitioning.

You can't form a consensus based on a few squeaky wheels. This isn't
even the right forum for a discusion about sysinst.

>  #2 many believe that one important method is divided partitions, with
>     /tmp, /var, /usr, /usr/local, /usr/pkg, and /home, each in a
>     separate partition.  Two label examples were proposed:
>       b) server
>          Advanced layout (asks questions to determine best layout)

sysinstall can't even handle installing over multiple spindles, so
pretending to support "servers" (whatever that means) is premature.
On the other hand, anyone who's actually used sysinstall knows that
it's currently trivially easy to create up to 16 partitions.

You should also know that there's a performance disadvantage to having
multiple active partitions on the same disk.

>  #4 systinst should always display the commands that are being
>     executed.  Before each step, systinst should display text
>     explaining the next steps.  The current text needs updating.

Where did that come from?

Frederick