Feature Request: Interactive partitioner for the SteamOS recovery image.
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Active
- Domain
- operating-systems
Research direction
The issue is about modifying the SteamOS recovery/installer image's disk flashing script. Look for the installer utility or recovery environment scripts in the repository. Understand the current whole-disk flashing logic and research how to integrate an interactive partitioning step or tool like GParted. 'Done' means a user can select target partitions during installation.
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Description
Problem:
Currently, the official SteamOS recovery/installer image uses a blind, whole-disk flashing script that automatically targets and wipes an entire physical drive. This makes it impossible to safely install SteamOS alongside other operating systems or on specific partitions of large drives (such as multi-terabyte storage arrays) without risking existing data.
Feature Request:
Add an interactive partitioning step to the SteamOS installer utility, or include a reliable partitioning tool (such as GParted) in the recovery environment.
Allowing users to explicitly select target partitions, shrink existing volumes, or safely manage multi-boot layouts would make evaluating SteamOS on generic desktop hardware infinitely more user-friendly and safer for dual-boot setups.
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