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Arch Linux installer - guided, templates etc.
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Select empty partition for full instalation #1666

Open vitormmatos opened 1 year ago

vitormmatos commented 1 year ago

When choosing how to set the disk layout, we're given two options:

Still when dealing with a hard drive with an already existing OS, it can be a pain to setup all the partitions properly within archinstall.

My suggestion is to create a third option:

-Select empty partition

An option similar to the second one, where the archinstall script would manage on how those partition layouts should be, yet maintaining previous OSes and perhaps re-using previous linux partiotions already created, as /boot and /home

Torxed commented 1 year ago

Would be nice, and we used to do so. But there's a huge risk attached to this, and that is one single bug on a single hardware will potentially wipe and destroy peoples setups.

The "Manual Setup" offers selecting empty partitions but after that also requires more actions. It would be nice if it would have a "Propose a partition setup based on empty partitions". That's something I would like to see, but will not prioritize over other features - but will accept a PR (preferably after #1604)