Thanks and best regards,
marco antonio

But with so many file systems and partition types available, it’s really hard to make it easy.”

Here are some suggestions of mine -

1. During installation, in “Suggested Partitioning” pictured here – http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/4/4f/OS11.0-inst-7.jpg , there are two options 1.Create Partition Setup and 2. Edit Partition Setup. It would be good idea to integrate both these options into one icon/option.

2. During installation, in “Suggested Partitioning” pictured here – http://files.opensuse.org/opensuse/en/4/4f/OS11.0-inst-7.jpg , when you click on the first option “Create Partition Setup”, there are again two options under “Hard Disk” – 1. IDE… 2. Custom Partition (for experts). Here also we can reduce the two options “IDE” and “Custom Partition (for experts)” to one icon/option so that it will be less intimidating to end-users/ new users and make partitioning very easy for all users.

3. When you click on “Custom Partition (for experts)”, you are taken to new screen where it shows the layout of the partitions. Below that screen there’s an option “Show Details.” Although it shows us a lot of details, in the end who is interested in all those details. Windows XP installer doesn’t have that stuff. Sure to access all those details, we need to “tick” on the box beside the “Show details” icon. But why have the option “Show Details” in first place?

4. In the same screen where “Show Details” icon is found, at the bottom of the screen there are options “Create”, “Edit”, “Delete”, “Resize”, “LVM”, “RAID”, “Crypt file”, “NFS”, “Expert.” When you click on the option “Create”, you get a dialog box titled “Partiton Type” with options 1. Primary Partition, 2. Extended Partition.

When you click on the option “Primary Partition”, a new dialog box opens titled “Create a Primary Partition on /dev/sda.” In that there’s a box called “size.” In that we need to specify “start cylinder number” and “end cylinder number.” Why not remove the thing called “start/end cylinder numbers” and instead have the option to enter the amount of space required for parition in Megabytes (MB) or Gigabyte (GB) like Windows XP and Debian Etch’s new GUI installer allows? In that way it will be lot more easier to create partitions for those who come from Windows XP or for the matter of fact for those who use computers for the first time in their lives.

5. In the same screen where “Show Details” icon is found, at the bottom of the screen there are options “Create”, “Edit”, “Delete”, “Resize”, “LVM”, “RAID”, “Crypt file”, “NFS”, “Expert.” Just look at the top of the screen. It shows /dev/sda followed with the size of hard disk. When you create a partition, a partition gets created called “sda1, sda2″ and so on. The problem here is the screen does not show us the remaining free space available in the hard disk after creating partitions. We have to calculate on our own to know how much space is still left. It would be great if the computer calculated and shows us how much space is still left after creating partitions (Windows XP installer and Debian Etch’s new GUI installer show the remaining space available in a hard disk after a partition is created.).

6. openSUSE offers a lot of filesystems to choose from. Each filesystem serves a specific function. When choosing any filesytem, please provide the details as to what each filesystem is meant for in the help menu in the installer. The “details” or information which you provide in the help menu for choosing a specific filesystem will be very much appreciated by all users.

thanx for the great openSUSE 11.0

At any rate, SuSE has been my Linux of choice since v9, and I expect that to continue. Thanks SuSE crew.