On 05.03.15 08:32, Wen Lin wrote:
Hi Erik,
I came across the following "How-to" from Ubuntu support site. FYI. See if it can be of help?
Many thanks, Wen. According to that, the secret GUI obfuscation appears to be that it is necessary to move the highlight from /dev/sda to "free space" before the GUI will do anything other than cryptically refuse to progress. I don't recall that "free space" was shown in my case, perhaps due to the lacking partition table. I could go back and check, if it now mattered much. My patience with ratruns with blank walls lacking discoverability is distinctly limited, and this just confirms my decades old antipathy towards GUIs. I'll make a note of the deficiency for future reference ... and then go back to doing it with parted, I think. That will be much less dangerous for my blood pressure, since any obstacle is discoverable, google-able, and amenable to grubbing about in manpages. Thanks again, for helping solve the mystery. Erik -- The meta-problem here is that the configuration wizard does all the approved rituals (GUI with standardized clicky buttons, help popping up in a browser, etc. etc.) but doesn't have the central attribute these are supposed to achieve: discoverability. That is, the quality that every point in the interface has prompts and actions attached to it from which you can learn what to do next. - Eric Raymond, in "The Luxury of Ignorance."