Re: debinst: target media preperation

2000-10-20 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Bernhard" == Bernhard R Link <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bernhard> That's an idea. sfdisk is very nice for duplicating. Bernhard> But one had to ensure that the disks have the same geometry. No, I don't think that's true. You can specifiy a * partition size, and it will expand

Re: debinst: target media preperation

2000-09-25 Thread Bernhard R. Link
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Joey Hess wrote: > > Calling (s|f)?fdisk or whatever has the advantage of > > well-tested-and-proofen code and user-interface. I think it should at > > least be callable to do so. > > I agree. Especially since I don't think debconf is really up to the job > of a full-fled

Re: debinst: target media preperation

2000-09-22 Thread Joey Hess
Bernhard R. Link wrote: > I think it is an important question, if the partitionating should be done > by the installer or by an external program by the installer. > > Calling (s|f)?fdisk or whatever has the advantage of > well-tested-and-proofen code and user-interface. I think it should at > lea

Re: debinst: target media preperation

2000-09-15 Thread Akira YOSHIYAMA
Hi, On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 21:32:04 +1100 Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There will have to be different levels of modules for target media > preperation, here are some possible modules, im not suggesting we need > them all, just exporing options > > Some functionality provided by thes

Re: debinst: target media preperation

2000-09-15 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 09:32:04PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote: > There will have to be different levels of modules for target media > preperation, here are some possible modules, im not suggesting we need > them all, just exporing options Yep, I think it would be good to have a very simple module

Re: debinst: target media preperation

2000-09-15 Thread Bernhard R. Link
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Glenn McGrath wrote: > 2) Partition preperation > Functionality > > There is no one tool that can do the job here, modules could be based > on debians libfdisk, parted, other fdisk style programs, individual > tools will likely be required to deal with any md or