Re: BSDInstaller snapshot

Robert Watson wrote:
>
> Before adding some of my own user interface critiques, I wanted to 
> mention at the top of the e-mail that I'm very pleased the BSD 
> installer work is going on, it's well overdue!  Onto a few minor 
> criticisms :-).
>
> On Mon, 15 May 2006, Rostislav Krasny wrote:
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>> http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/bsdinstaller_install/16.png
>
> I'd like to see the partition type here simply be "FreeBSD".  "Drago" 
> is likely to confuse, and Dragonfly actually uses the FreeBSD type, 
> rather than it being the Dragonfly type.  See further comments below 
> on slices and partitions.
I have a local change to just show FreeBSD.
>
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/bsdinstaller_install/24.png
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/bsdinstaller_install/25.png
>>
>> I think the word "formatted" on the second screenshot should be 
>> changed to "created", because fdisk doesn't format partitions/slices.
>
> I tend to agree.  While there is some benefit in using the DOS/Windows 
> vocabulary, I think it's better to use the same vocabulary as found in 
> existing FreeBSD documentation, including the handbook, man pages, 
> printed books, etc.  In these dialogs, the device names should also be 
> specifically mentioned.  Note that "Primary partition" is a confusing 
> term -- I'm not sure what it means, actually :-).
The primary partition is the partition to install FreeBSD on. This is 
because the BSDInstaller can only install to one bsd slice currently.
>
>>
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/bsdinstaller_install/22.png
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/bsdinstaller_install/26.png
>>
>> Does BSDInstaller support installtion on multiple slices or multiple 
>> physical disks? Sysinstall supports it.
>
> While I recognize the goal of providing a useful mapping to user-aware 
> notions, such as "partitions", I find the message in this dialog 
> confusing even as someone who in theory knows something about the 
> topic.  Despite the limitations of calling fdisk partitions slices in 
> sysinstall, at least it was done mostly sort of consistently :-).  I'd 
> like to see the installe consistently refer to "fdisk slices" and "bsd 
> partitions", and avoid using the words "slice" or "partition" in 
> isolation. 
I'll look in to changing the references.

Andrew