Re: [Dragora-bug] Things on the Installation

[Matias A. Fonzo]

El Mon, 15 Jun 2015 21:40:05 -0300
Nicolás Dato <address@hidden> escribió:
> > It would be interesting if you remember what happens here to see if
> > I can reproduce it.
> What I am reporting is like something not expected *by me* on a first
> install, if you think they are fine and everything is working as
> expected, then everything is ok :D

It's fine.  Something unexpected can be also considered as a bug for
sure.  :-)

> So, there are 3 things
> -Some buttons can be selected by left-right arrow (and tab too), and
> others (like the save changes) i could only select them with tab (now
> you told me :P), this is not a big deal.

Main KEYS are TAB, SPACE and the cursor keys.

> -I didn't understand very well how to select the swap partition,
> because there is a [ ] that I thought it was to select the partition
> to use as swap (but it was to select to check or not the partition),
> the buttons Format and Continue confused me, thinking Continue was to
> Continue (using the swap partition above) but without formating, and
> Format button was if i wanted to format and continue using the
> selected partition, then i realized all the <Continue> buttons in
> setup skip the step, my bad interpretation perhaps, i expected
> Continue to Continue without skiping
> -Looks like checking [ ] worked the other way
> 
> So, here are the steps I did, between {}  i will put comments
> 
> Using qemu 2.2.0
> $ qemu-system-i386 dragora.img -m 512 -smp 2 -boot menu=on -cdrom
> dragora-2.2-i486.iso
> (boots the cd)
> $ fdisk /dev/sda
> -> creo una particion primaria de 4G de tipo Linux (0x83)
> -> creo una particion primaria de 1G de tipo Linux swap (0x82)
> -> grabo la tabla de particiones
> $ mkswap /dev/sda2 {or the swap is already formatted}
> $ setup
> -> start (<Ok)
> -> Partition (<Ok>)
> -> here i select (with SPACE) /dev/sda2 and click on <Continue>
> {thinking i already did mkswap, no need for it, and now i undestand
> that selecting it was to check for bad blocks, not to select /dev/sda2
> to use it}
> -> select /dev/sda1 <Ok>
> -> specify format? <Yes>
> -> ext4 <Ok>
> -> select /dev/sda1 for checking bad blocks, <Format>
> -> mount point for /dev/sda1? '/', <Ok>
> -> /dev/sda1 appears again as ext4 on '/', <Continue> {Notice that
> this time I select <Continue>, like i did with in the swap menu}
> -> now appears the fstab summary, /dev/sda2 is not shown to be mounted
> as swap {i thought i selected it}
> 
> 
> If it should have used /dev/sda2 as swap even when clicking <Continue>
> but not <Format>, well, in this cases it didn't happened, if what
> happened was what is expected, my suggestion is to somehow tell the
> user that <Continue> won't select swap, (like using <Skip>)
> 
> now, i exit setup (ctrl-c) and re run it
> -> start
> -> partition
> -> selet /dev/sda2 (so it has [*]) and <Format>
> -> message: "Formatting without checking for bad blocks...." {but i
> had selected it to check for bad blocks}
> -> Now appears the Linux Partitions menu
> 
> 
> So, i think the main idea is that sometimes it was not clear to me
> what was going to happen, if clicking Continue was like skipping the
> step or not and the suggestion would be to be more clear what does the
> button do

Yeah, it's a bit confusing.  Taking a look to the code, "Continue" is
acting like a Cancel button, so the swap will be taken if you click on
"Format" or confirming with the checkbox [ ].  This is a bug, all your
comments here serve for a posterior improvement.

Feel free to include comments or suggestions in the Wishlist[1].

[1] http://dragora.org/wiki/doku.php/devel/wishlist

Thanks for the report!