Re: partitioner during Agama installation

On 7/3/26 3:18 PM, gumb via openSUSE Users wrote:
> On 03/07/2026 18:52, Felix Miata wrote:
>> James Knott composed on 2026-07-03 10:38 (UTC-0400):
>>
>>> Can the partitioner be used during install, so that existing partitions
>>> can be used?
>>
>> If you mean is there a partitioner in Agama for 16.0 with which existing
>> partitions can be used, and no partition tables need be disturbed, 
>> yes! I did my
>> only Agama GA for 16.0 installation on a PC with 34 existing partitions.
>
> I 'upgraded' a couple of Leap 15.6 systems to Leap 16.0 (fresh install 
> into existing partitions, some left as is, others formatted, one or 
> two resized and new ones added, all using Ext4 or XFS and not Btrfs, 
> and the disk partitioning section in Agama was a real pain point. 
> However, eventually after a lot of tearing my hair out, it was possible.
>
> A lot of the interface elements in the new installer have weird 
> behavioural quirks and it's not at all evident how to do certain 
> tweaks that were possible under the old YaST partitioner. My installs 
> were a couple of months ago so I don't recall so clearly, but I seem 
> to remember things like fields that you had to type in and then 
> explicitly select an option with the mouse rather than the keyboard, 
> or hit the Enter key, else it appeared there was no way to change the 
> configuration. I think most of the functionality is there but much of 
> it hidden behind some awful design choices. I've read that there's 
> continued work on the installer and partitioner so hopefully come Leap 
> 16.1 it will have improved a lot.
>
> It's worth having a go with it but you might need an hour of endless 
> faffing, backing out of configs to the main screen and wondering why 
> it keeps then messing up your choices, before you figure out how to 
> get around it. 

This was my experience with Agama too!  After a lot of faffing I managed to
get it configured the way I wanted.   Then a few days later I tried it again
and I couldn't reproduce what I had previously done!  I just attributed 
it to
my being old and not understanding how to do modern things.  I ran into
the same feeling when I was exposed to Gnome recently.   I just couldn't
wrap my brain around it.  But one of my young users thinks its fine.  Go
figure.  I've been managing SuSE systems for 28-years for probably hundreds
of users and this is the first time someone preferred Gnome. Sigh... we
are here but to serve.

Regards,
Lew