Package: partman Severity: wishlist On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 01:25:08PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 06:50:00PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > Flash is getting cheaper and there are now devices which have enough > > flash to install a full blown Debian to it. My question is how to > > change partman to support installations to flash. Under Linux, MTD is > > used to access flash: it provides both a block and char device of the > > device. A file system like JFFS is normally used. MTD doesn't have > > traditional partitions like disks; in terms of the installer, we > > should probably just take the existing partitions that are recognized > > by the kernel (i.e. you cannot delete or create partitions, or resize > > them). > > > > How can this be handled in partman? > > AFAICT is the monolithic nature of partman the problem. > Partman does partitioning, mkfs and matching devices to mountpoints. > If partman would be split in those three parts, > then we can reuse the matching of devices to mountpoints > and do the "partitioning" and "mkfs" elsewhere, e.g. in the "BOOTROM" > of the embedded device. > > Another advantage of that split would allow partitioning with other > tools (think "partition magic", "FAI partitioner" or other favorites ) > > Rigth now it hard to do that and surely hard to do in preseeding.
Perhaps we don't need a split, but only more entrypoints into partman. So we enter partman at the point it has done partitioning can continue from there. Cheers Geert Stappers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
