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

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 10:44:13PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> 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

ext2 is a filesystem, I mean partition tables. Like Sun, Amiga, Apple
(check libfdisk). Until parted can deal with those types of partition
tables, it is useless on anything but i386, and some alphas.

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