Re: redesigning the debian installer

[Glenn McGrath]

Joey Hess wrote:
> 
> Martin Keegan wrote:
> > Incidentally, what facilities currently exist for non-interactive partitioning?
> > Is there a dedicated tool for this, or should one do
> >
> > /sbin/fdisk < scripted_responses
> >
> > and pray? If we can't do pretty arbitrary partitioning in a scriptable
> > fashion, the non-interactive mass install idea goes down the plughole.
> 
> sfdisk should allow this (in util-linux). It has had problems in the
> past with other architectures but I think it has been improving.
> 

libfdisk is on the improve as well, and the code looks pretty nice, it
could probably be modularised for specific filesystems, only uspports
two architectures at the moment though.

Glenn


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