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Re: partitioning scheme, where does it need work?



* Michael Cardenas 

| On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 11:22:27PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
| 
| > | I'm sure everyone knows that d-i doesn't build right now:
| > | 
| > | "Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
| > | choose-mirror: Depends: libdeconf0.3 but it is not installable
| > 
| > This libdeconf is due to a typo on my part.  It should be fixed now.
| 
| With the help of colin walters, I was able to get it to build. I ran
| into a problem with uname not being in busybox so the dhclient script
| fails, so i filed a bug with busybox with a patch to include uname in
| the udeb.

good.

| Also, it seems that you fixed it in the source, but the new packages
| with the correct dependencies are not on the mirror yet, so I had to
| build them and put them in localudebs to get it to run.  

They are in incoming -- I just missed yesterday's dinstall run.

| > There is some code in utils/ which calls fdisk.  I want a manual
| > partitioner to work before I say we have reached the first goal: a
| > working installer.
| > 
| > So, I'd take a look at that instead of partkit.
| 
| I looked at it, and you're right, it just calls fdisk. The problem
| with that is, how are we going to mount the partitions that fdisk created?

Ask for each partition in /dev/discs/disc*/part* perhaps?

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Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are      : :' :
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