On 10/11/2010 08:51 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:44:49 -0500, Chris Adams cmadams@hiwaay.net wrote:
I think that is a misfeature. I don't want anything irreversible to be done until I say go.
You know that Fedora has done partitioning/mkfs about halfway through the install for a while now, right? I don't see why there would be a problem with letting that run in the background while continuing through the questions.
I forget which stuff gets done afterwards, since I haven't done a fresh install for a while now. (I mostly do yum upgrades and play with live USB images.) But I do remember a clear no/no go point where disk drive file systems get formatted. Depending on the file systems being used that can take a little bit of time to complete, but is short compared to the rest of the install.
Actually formatting a large partition ( and >=1 TB disks are becoming more and more frequent) DOES take enough time to go boil a coffee.