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

debinst: target media preperation

2000-09-15 Thread Glenn McGrath
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 these modules could be also used in acquisition of packages from a local filesystem 1) Hardwar