Now, when presets [3] & [4] are selected (create ESP, /Root, /Home & ESP, /Root, /Home, /Swap)
the user can set a custom percentage for the '/Root' partition's size to be created.
Default percentage is 25% of the Disk's total detected capacity.
Aesthetic adjustments/ polishing the TUI in the 'Automatic Partitioning' stage.
Indentation.
The 'Partition Layout Preset' to be used, derives automatically from the current User Preferences.
No additional user input is needed.
When this option is used, and after successful stage completion, 'Sanity Check' will report the event as: 'Disk </dev/xxxxxx> Auto-Formatted OK'
Change: 'Sanity Check' stage : Now the installer asks for action if more than 1 partitions of type 'Linux /Home' are found
ONLY if the user has previously selected 'Ext4' as filesystem and use of a separate /Home partition
Change: 'Sanity Check' stage : Now the installer asks for action if more than 1 partitions of type 'Linux /Swap' are found
ONLY if the user has previously selected use of a /Swap partition
Change: 'Encryption Setup' stage : Now if a partition of type 'Linux /Home' is detected, the installer offers to encrypt it
ONLY if the user has previously selected 'Ext4' as filesystem and use of a separate /Home partition
Change: 'Confirm Installation Status' > 'Revise Installation' > The 'Partition Manager' stage has been removed,
as the installer can now automatically deal with the partitions layout it is presented with.
Change: The '--graceful' flag has been removed from the options, when installing 'systemd-boot'
Minor indentation
Add: Sanity Check > When several partition of the same type {root,ESP,home,swap} are detected, the installer will warn and manage ONLY the ones relevant to your currently detected preferences.
Indentation.
It is now part of the auto-guided 'Start Installation' stage.
Change: 'Disk Management' > 'Partition Manager' > 'Automatic Partitioning': Now detects user's current preferences and offers/selects the appropriate 'Partition Layout Preset' automatically.
Add: Packages: 'gnome-shell-extension-appindicator' and 'glib2-devel' have been added to the 'Custom Gnome Setup'
Change: Silence verbosity of stdout/stderr when a 'Swapfile' is created.
Minor visual changes and indentation.
Add: In 'Auto Partitioning' stage, extended info and colors have been added to the prompt, to better clarify which filesystems the 'Partition Layout Presets' support.
Add: In the Manual 'Format Boot Partition' & 'Format Root Partition' stages, if formatting the selected partition is skipped, a 2 sec delay has been added after the 'Warning' prompt to stress the importance.
An 'Auto Mode' that offers ready-made compatible Partition Layout Presets with sane defaults to select from,
and a 'Manual Mode', (which now shows extended info about the supported partition types and mountpoints that the installer expects), where 'cgdisk' is used, with its easy and and intuitive ncurses TUI.
Add: During 'Installation Disk Selection' stage, the installer scans the installation disk and if the ESP is found to be less than 300M,
the installer returns to the 'Partition Manager' stage, so the user can remedy this.
Add: For extended clarity reasons, A 'pseudo-graphical' partition/filesystem presentation has been added at the 'Sanity Check' stage
when multiple partitions of the same type {root/EFI/home/swap} have been detected and the user needs to confirm the Automated Selection made by the installer, to comply with the 'Discoverable Partition Specifications'
it Auto-Assigns the 1st partition of each type, to be used by systemd's automation in the installation (as the 'Discoverable Partitions Specifications' dictate).
Of course comes with its own menu/prompts, for user interaction.
to Auto-Assign the 1st partition of each type, to be used by systemd's automation in the installation (as the 'Discoverable Partitions Specifications' dictate).
Of course comes with its own menu/prompts, for user interaction.
If no Kernel has been selected, the 'Graphics Setup' stage will now send you to the 'Kernel & Bootloader Selection' stage first
If no filesystem has been selected, the 'Graphics Setup' stage will now send you to the 'Filesystem & Swap Selection' stage first
Reselecting any Kernel from 'Kernel Selection' stage now forces a re-run of the 'Graphics Setup' stage (if already run)
Reselecting a filesystem from 'Filesystem Selection' stage now forces a re-run of the 'Graphics Setup' stage (if already run)
Reselecting any Swap type from 'Swap Setup' stage now forces a re-run of the 'Graphics Setup' stage (if already run)
If Linux Hardened Kernel is selected and Swap is concurrently selected, the installer issues a warning and defaults to 'No Swap' setting
Selecting 'n' to configure single-graphics Nvidia setup defaults to 'nouveau'
Selecting 'n' to configure a multi-graphics setup including Nvidia, defaults to open-source drivers
If an AMD gpu & Nvidia gpu are detected and 'Nvidia-Open' drivers are selected, then the installer issues a warning and then a 'Confirmation' prompt
Nvidia's 'Suspend-Hibernate-Resume' Video-Memory Preserving feature from the Proprietary Nvidia driver can be auto-configured
If Nvidia's 'Suspend-Hibernate-Resume' Video-Memory Preserving feature is selected and Swap has not been set or Linux 'Hardened' Kernel has been selected, the feature will not be enabled
System installation/configuration is now silent (not verbose), the installer will inform if/where errors occur and abort installation
Services are explicitly activated now
Code cleanup and indentation
Added new color & prompt functions
Major visual (TUI) revision
Added support for installing graphics drivers when multi-gpu systems are detected and code revision/overhaul
Changed 'Welcome/Warning' screen and 'Completion" message
Changes at "Locale Setup' stage
Code revision at 'Swap' creation, Format 'Root/Home', 'Auto-Mode' 'LUKS Encryption' and other stages
Changed the reaction to errors to 'Abort' in almost any significant configuration that takes place, to verify a successful installation
Changed the way the country codes are filtred at "Wireless Regulatory Domain Setup' stage
Hide 'stdout & stderr' messages for a cleaner experience (still the installer warns about them)
Code cleanup and indentation
Hide <command> stdout/stderr for improved aesthetics
Greatly improve aesthetics in 'Filesystem Overview' prompt
Delete some visual prompts for clarity reasons
Add 'Warning' prompts when selecting NOT to format partitions, when in 'Manual Mode' > 'Format Partitions' stage
Revert 'Reflector's' output to 'verbose' for clarity reasons
Code indentation
Changed/Reverted the way Locales are being filtered at "Selecting Locale" Stage.
Unified "KDE Plasma (Optimized) & Gnome (Optimized) configuration into the same code block.
Completely re-written the "Stage-Success" verification mechanism. Now is more elaborate and very detailed/verbose.
Minor aesthetic corrections.
When 'Nvidia' graphics are detected and running the 'Nvidia.hook' is needed, 'pacman.conf' involved option will be uncommented (activated) and '/etc/pacman.d/hooks/' directory will be created
