Re: [woody,debinst] Interim filesystem
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, bug1 wrote:
> 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.
I would expect a debian-installer partitioning program to be a
collaboration of (G)UI, core, and cmdline tools (or at least the bits
from them that are needed). I guess what it boils down to is if the
necessary functions can be incorporated into the installer, the core of
the partitioner, or would need to be stand-alone; the latter would
probably necessitate an interim fs, the first two mean more work.
later,
Bruce
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