Re: [woody,debinst] (Was: Re: [dbootstrap] `newt' and `boxes.c', `bogl' and `bowl'[, `???' and `boxeX.c'?])
>>>>> "bug1" == bug1 <bug1@netconnect.com.au> writes:
bug1> Talking about newt, did you know there exists gnewt, its a gnome wrapper
bug1> around newt, not directly usefull to us, but who knows, could come in
bug1> handy.
bug1> http://oksid.ch/gnewt/
I'll look this over and see if it's as cool as it seems at first
glance. With `gnewt', we could do an installer that works on both
character terminals, and on `xserver-vga16' (or xserver-fbdev ?)
Karl> They have device detection codes worth haveing a look over also...
Karl> so does Corel Linux.
bug1> Redhats hardware detection is called kudzu, i believe mandrakes
bug1> libdetect is better than kudzu (for isa cards at least).
Ok. I didn't know that. I had assumed that they both use the same
`libdetect'.
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'.
bug1> What about parted, it doesnt have much a of a GUI, but it wouldnt be
bug1> hard to do i dont think.
bug1> I think the ability to resize existing partitions (non destructivve
bug1> install) is one most users would really like.
>> Can shell scripts be compressed and executed via "zcat SCRIPT |
>> /bin/sh"? Would that buy us some space? How about other
>> executables? Can they easily be compressed somehow? (launched
>> through a shell script that does autodecompress or something?)
>>
bug1> Cramfs is a compressed read-only filesystem in 2.4, it compresses each
bug1> block, so it doesnt get the same compression as you would on the whole
bug1> file.
bug1> I have heard of a way you can make bziped executables, only read about
bug1> it though.
bug1> Glenn
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