Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing fdisk with cfdisk in

[donnie berkholz]

On Tuesday 19 August 2003 20:16, Luke-Jr wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 August 2003 04:18 pm, foser wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 18:11, Svyatogor wrote:
> > > I've been told that both of them are on LiveCD anyway. So the issue is
> > > which one do we explain in the Installation Guide. Let's look at it
> > > this way. Does cfdisk miss any feature required for installtion? I
> > > don't think so. So it would be much nicer to the user to explain him
> > > how to use cfdisk - an easy tool. If, however, there is work he wonts
> > > to do with fdisk - fair enough noone forbids it.
> >
> > I don't think that's a good idea, choice is not always good. Explaining
> > a lot of different ways to achieve the same thing is cluttering the
> > install docs, those are large enough already. Have the fdisk parts of
> > the docs not proven by now they are sufficient ?
> >
> > - foser
>
> I think the point is, the docs only explain how to do with fdisk what can
> also be done with cfdisk and cfdisk is easier to use. Might as well explain
> cfdisk and if someone wants to use fdisk, they should already know how
> anyway.

I'm pretty sure it was cfdisk that was documented in the installation guide 
when I installed Gentoo initially, and for the reasons earlier mentioned re 
sloppiness etc it was later changed to fdisk. Foser seems to imply it was 
also fdisk earlier at some point too, so apparently cfdisk was just 
documented for a short time. I personally would recommend cfdisk in the 
install guide, and link to a quickie guide of fdisk. My idea is to make the 
install as easy as possible, and cfdisk is significantly easier to use and 
more intuitive than fdisk (for me and most people I've talked with about 
this, at least).


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