On Sun, Sep 01, 2002 at 09:38:01AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Raphael Hertzog] > > Duh ! It's not acceptable I think. A partitionner that kills > > everything in your system is of use to a very limited set of > > users. Questioning what part of the system it can take over is way > > better. > > I know, but I'm still working on fixing it, and was just wondering if > I should make our current version available for a larger audience. > > > Instead of merging both version, you may simply want to add that > > feature in your autopartkit and then replace the one we have in CVS > > ... :-) > > I'll continue doing this. It just took more time than I expected when > I started the merge. > > > And yes the autopartkit with the questions is used by the french > > debian-educ distribution (in fact it was the old autopartkit for > > parted 1.4 but it's almost the same code base). > > OK. > > Our autopartkit will use the "debian-installer/profile" cdebconf > answer to choose a partitioning wish list from > /etc/autopartkit/<profile>.table, and use this to partition the disk. > It supports creating LVM partitions, and will in addition to this > support all the file system types supported by libparted. It will also > grab all available devices, clear the partition table and use these > disks for automatic partitioning. The wish lists contain mounting > point, fstype, minimum and maximum partition sizes. At the moment, > only the minimum partition sizes are used, but I'm working on > integrating an algorithm to fill all available space (up to the max > requested size). > > Before our autopartkit will be an acceptable replacement for the > version in Debian, I also need to add code to choose which device to > use, code to shrink FAT partitions if there is insufficient free > space, and avoid nuking all the partition tables if there is enough > free space (and continue asking if it is ok to nuke the partition > tables if there is to little space available)..
This sounds great :) My wishlist ... Can these auto partition scheme includes a no-partition option with following 1-2 steps 1. creation of a large zero filled file in known FS (VFAT, NTFS?) 2. loop mounting it as ext2FS (even as rootFS) (I am thinking booting from flash for notePC without repartitioning) Reason are: Anticipated existance of new XP preloaded machine with NTFS Create opportunity for low impact install for wider audience Clandestine Linux install (avoid isuues with stupid corporate IT rule) :) -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> @ Cupertino, CA USA + -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
