Re: Interested in adding UBIFS support to d-i
Hello,
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com> wrote:
> I'm considering adapting the installer (well, partman I guess) to work
> on a non-x86, embedded platform I have here. The platform uses UBIFS
> as the root filesystem, in NAND flash. The presentation is similar to
> what the GuruPlug guys have to deal with.
This will require involvimeent in GNU Parted since this is the tool
used for the partitioning.
> I'm experienced with Debian as a user, but I have never hacked around
> in the installer. Can someone point me in the right direction
> regarding the partitioning and formatting parts of the above? The
> documentation I have found so far seems to address the preseeding
> topic, but I haven't found much information on how to hack the
> partition setup and formatting portions of the installer. Any advice
> would be greatly appreciated.
I suggest you to look at:
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/doc/internals/
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/doc/talks/debconf6/
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