Re: [woody,debinst] (Was: Re: [dbootstrap] `newt' and `boxes.c', `bogl' and `bowl'[, `???' and `boxeX.c'?])

[Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>]

On Sat Jun 17, 2000 at 12:02:51AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 09:44:31PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > On Sat Jun 17, 2000 at 01:29:43PM +1000, bug1 wrote:
> > > >  Red Hat's `libfdisk' contains a partition editor with a `newt'
> > > >  interface.  It might be possible to port it to our system and hook
> > > >  that into our Woody `debinst' `dbootstrap'.
> > > > 
> > > What about parted, it doesnt have much a of a GUI, but it wouldnt be
> > > hard to do i dont think.
> > > I think the ability to resize existing partitions (non destructivve
> > > install) is one most users would really like.
> > 
> > Agreed re parted.  I think a cool project would be hacking a GUI similar to
> > cfdisk into parted...
> 
> Better get parted to support more than just msdos partitions before we
> even thing of using it in boot-floppies :)

???  
Parted supports ext2.
http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/09/19/937790960.html

 -Erik

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