better install experience

Thorsten Leemhuis fedora at leemhuis.info
Wed Oct 10 20:08:59 UTC 2007


On 10.10.2007 21:53, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 15:53 -0400, Paul Wouters wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>>>> 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.
>> Wasn't NTFS a patent issue? Though I do not see it anymore on
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems
> Short answer: No.
> Long answer: If something (anything) in Fedora infringes a patent that
> you hold, please let me know the specifics (which patent, which
> software, etc), and we will address it.

Is there a middle-sized answer maybe that might explain why
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=65749
still wasn't fixed? The bug is about this fact:

$ grep NTFS /boot/config-2.6.23-0.217.rc9.git1.fc8
# CONFIG_NTFS_FS is not set

Sure, ntfs-3g is around -- but some people still prefer the in-kernel
driver and it still gets downloaded from a well know 3rd party repo as
kmod a lot.

Cu
knurd




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