Le Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 01:06:38PM -0400, Joey Hess �crivait:
>       1. Identifying available media, and deciding which to use.
>       2. Identifying existing partitions, and deciding what to do with
>          them (delete them, keep them unchanged, resize them).
>       3. Deciding how many partitions of what sizes and layouts and types
>          to make.
>       4. Creating (deleting, resizing) partitions.
>       5. Deciding where to mount all the partitions.
>       6. Formatting and initializing filesystems (and swap space).
>       7. Mounting partitions in /target (and swapon swap partitions)
>       8. Writing fstab.

It is my understanding that 1-4 and 6 should be in a same meta-step at
least. This meta-step could give hints about the partition/mount point
mapping.

              |
          Choice of                 # may be automatic
      partitionning tool
              |
    /--------/|\---------\   /-> Provide hints for mount points
    |         |          |  /
 Manual    Cfdisk     Automatic     # partitionning
    |         |          |
 Choice    mke2fs     Automatic     # formatting/initializing
of fstype     |          |
    |         |          |
    \---------|----------/
              |
         Mount points <---- use hints stored before
           choices                  # mounting/swapping
              |
         Write fstab
              |

Cheers,
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