Re: [woody,debinst] Interim filesystem
bug1 wrote:
> > What is the advantage to delaying partitioning, get it out of the way
> > fast and you have the whole harddrive to play with.
> >
> If you get it out the way first, then you limit how powerfull it can be.
>
> If we delay partitioning till after the installer has accessed the
> debinian binary archive then partitioning tools can be taken from the
> archive rather than being included with the installer.
This is quite true, however, the design I came up with also allows you
to download the partitioner from somewhere, without the expense of
installing a scratch install of debian too.
> If we can have anything from the debian archive prior to partitioning we
> can get binaries to do filesystem resizing, LVM, raid, without
> includeing them in the installer.
>
> We could also delay partitioning till after a hardware detection stage
> which gives time for kernel modules to be inserted incase any hardware
> that should be repartitioned wasnt detected by the boot kernel.
Also supported by my design.
> If we can have LVM, RAID and Filesystem resizing tools available for
> partitioning using this methods i would be just as happy.
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