Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > OK, I will try to answer this to my best knowledge: > It's not easily possible with the current design. You can not have > submenus in main-menu and because main-menu is just another debconf > question with priority medium it's only shown if the debconf priority is > medium or lower. Normal installations start at high and therefore do not > show main-menu unless there was an error. > So the short answer is: This is somehow a problem of the modularity of > debian-installer and it is not easy to fix it in a sane manner without > changing the design of the installer.
Funny I was thinking about this same thing this morning, and I agree with Sven. As long as you consider this to be a special case (which to a large degree it is), it's easy to deal with. Create a new udeb that checks to see if partconf+partitioner and autopartkit are installed to build its submenu. Stop providing a menu entry for those three udebs, and only have one menu entry for the new one. It would manually display a submenu (at priority critical probably because this is important): manual partitioning and formatting <-- DEFAULT automatic partitioning and formatting And then call partconf + partitioner or autopartkit depending on the selection. If they throw an error, propigate it out to main-menu. The only downsides I see are that you will be unable to jump directly to partconf or re-run it without going through partitioner first (but this is not a big deal), and that if we should get yet a third partitioner or formatter, the sub menu will need to be manually extended. That seems fairly unlikely though. -- see shy jo
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