Re: [woody,debinst] Interim filesystem

[Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>]

On Tue Jun 20, 2000 at 03:37:17AM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote:
> No argument here.
> 
> 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. 

sfdisk can do this (but it is much buggier then fdisk and
has endianness problems).

 -Erik

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