Re: debinst: target media preperation
Hi,
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 21:32:04 +1100
Glenn McGrath <bug1@optushome.com.au> wrote:
> There will have to be different levels of modules for target media
> preperation, here are some possible modules, im not suggesting we need
> them all, just exporing options
>
> Some functionality provided by these modules could be also used in
> acquisition of packages from a local filesystem
>
>
> 1) Hardware detection of possible targets to install to.
> Detect all drives, removable drives etc. could be split from libdetect
> or a custom job based on kernel detection from dmesg, or devfs.
>
> 2) Partition preperation
> Functionality
> detect
> create
> delete
> resize?
>
> Different partition types
> acorn
> amiga : libfdisk
> atari : libfdisk
> ibm
> mac : libfdisk, libparted
> msdos : libfdisk, libparted
> osf : libfdisk
> pc98? : libparted
pc9800 : libparted, libfdisk
in my bf archive.
A.Yoshiyama <yosshy@debian.or.jp>
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