Bug#249545: installation report (d-i 20040506)

[Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>]

Quoting Bruno Majewski (bruno@pubnix.qc.ca):

> (3)	for manual partitionning: you should consider using a screen layout 
> like the one used for cfdisk
> 	or like the FreeBSD FDISK partition editor (see screenshot at:
> 	http://www.distrowatch.com/images/screenshots/freebsd-partition.png)
> 	One can make out easily what he works with (or on) and what one can 
> 	do, i.e. all available commands,
> 	no guessing required.  Or in other words, you know what the objects 
> 	are and what you can do to them.

IIRC, what you describe is the behaviour of partconf, the tool used
before partman, and indeed still used for some architectures.

This package is, IIRC again, still included in CDs but you need to
boot with "linux DEBCONF_PRIORITY=mudium"for being able to choose
using the "Configure and mount partitions" menu entry (we should maybe
now changethis title, BTW).

partconf was put aside because of the lack of friendlyness of cfdisk
(which cannot be translated properly in d-i, also)