Re: [woody,debinst] Interim filesystem
Bruce Sass wrote:
> I think you are forgetting about something...
> how is partitioning going to be accomplished without user interaction.
>
> I'm not aware of any tools that can take a description of a filesystem
> then partition and setup a harddrive(s) accordingly, that seems to be a
> task necessary for unattended (auto-pilot mode) installations. If you
> have such a program then it doesn't make much sense to use the manual
> tools in the archive, give the user a more flexible and natural UI
> instead. May as well aim for the target instead of below it, if you
> fall short and need to resort to the manual tools then so be it, they
> can always be an option loaded off of a floppy, the HD, a CD, or a
> network. You already have at least a read-only filesystem available,
> that is all you really need for providing extra tools required before
> the target system has storage space available.
>
What if the partitioner was just a GUI, didnt have any tools itself, it
just interfaced to external command line tools.
Glenn
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