On Tuesday 20 August 2002 07:51 am, Enrico Kern wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I browsed freshmeat a while because i need a partioning
> Software for the Installation-procedure (not only fdisk i need
> a userfriendly interface). I think there is no need to write a
> special programm for InceptionOS/Linux because many good tools
> still exist. I will use the following tools:
>
> GNU/Parted
> ----------
> GNU Parted allows you to create, destroy, resize, and copy
> partitions. Supported partition types include ext2, FAT (FAT16
> and FAT32), and Reiserfs filesystems and Linux swap devices.
> Supported disk labels include MS-DOS and PC98 partition
> tables, Sun and BSD disk labels, Macintosh partition maps, and
> raw access. Parted is useful for creating space for new
> operating systems, reorganising disk usage, copying data
> between hard disks, and disk imaging.
>
> nParted (Interface to gparted)
> -----------------------------
> nParted is a graphical newt-based front-end to GNU parted,
> which allows you to copy, move, and resize disk partitions
> using only your cursor keys. There is no need to know the
> geometry of the disk. Think of it as "Partition Magic on a
> console". Its small size makes it useful for boot/rescue
> disks, and in fact, it is developed for the "La Espiral"
> project's boot-floppies.
My biggest worry about parted is XFS and ext3 support. I'd very
much like to be able to support those filesystems during
installation, as well as reiserfs and ext2 (XFS is my personal
favorite).
*sigh* If parted only used the standard mkfs utilities as
backends...
> as Bootmanager i prefer:
>
> Grub and lilo for the two classicals and
>
> Smart BootManager
> -----------------
>
> Smart BootManager is a tiny, powerful and multi-language boot
> manager written in assembler. SBM supports many features in
> only 30K bytes including multi-languages and themes, a user
> friendly menu system, partition auto scan, boot schedule,
> password protection, and more. SBM is the first GPLed boot
> manager to embed an IDE ATAPI CD-ROM driver, it can boot
> Win95/98/2K, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and BeOS from CD-ROM.
> Multi-bootable image CDs are supported as w.
Nice...I'll have to check that out. It looks pretty snazzy!
--
Kelledin
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