better install experience

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Wed Oct 10 19:38:41 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 15:18 -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> Some time back, IIRC I posted that it would improve the user experience if
> fedora installer would include a few tools.  I am (once again) getting a
> new machine, and (once again) it's coming with windoze pre-installed.  I
> need to do ntfsresize.  Last time, I had to grab a live-cd that had an
> ntfsresize, before I could do fedora install.  Has this situation improved?
> 
> If we want to improve the user experience, it would be great if anaconda
> offered to do the resize.  Even for an experienced user, who wants to d/l +
> burn >1 cd/dvd?

Anaconda doesn't have any ntfs support yet. We're looking at that for
F9.

The F-8 live-cd might have the ntfsutils, but I don't know.

~spot




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