Joey, i have some ideas of how woody boot floppies could work and would like to see how close they are to yours, or what are the curent plans for woody? Some things ive been thinking are base.tgz could be created on the fly if someone has access to the debian archive. An intermediate install could be installed to either ramfs (or ramdisk) or a loopback filsystem depending on the local systems available resources. Busybox can unpack debs (one ar.c patch pending that fixes extracting newer debs) so if the install disk had enough to contact the debian archive (net, hd, cd whatever) then busybox could unpack dpkg*deb or apt*deb and its dependencies with busybox ar, gunzip and tar. Then apt of dpkg could install the rest of base to either loop or ramfs before doing a chroot or pivot. This interim install should have enough to repartition, maybe resize ext2, fat partitions, if on a loopfs then it may be possible to have a raid1 or lvm mirror of two loopfs's, each on a seperate drive or partition if available, that way the whole drive could be repartitioned without destroying the loopfs. The interim installer would be independent of what is actually being installed, ie there could be a linux interim install which actually installs debian/linux, debian/hurd or even debian/bsd or debian/plan9, who knows what will be available for woody. Glenn
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