Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] The installer

[M0E L. <m0...@gm...>]

Does this assume the available "free space" is on a linux
friendly-formatted partition? or does this require resizing a hughe
vfat or ntfs and creating the necessary ext* partitions?

On 8/14/07, Eug=E9ne Suter <ea...@gm...> wrote:
> Well, for the automatic partitioning mode, the entire drive is erased and
> new partition sizes are calculated and compared to the amount of space th=
at
> the packages will occupy.
>
> But for the free-space mode (in which only free space from an existing
> partition is used), it is not going to make any modifications to the driv=
e
> at all until it is sure that the packages will fit in that unused
> space...thats why its important to know how much unused space that select=
ed
> partition has.
>
> Using the df method is my last resort...its *really* messy (especially if
> the user has many partitions).
>
>
>
> On 14/08/07, M0E Lnx < m0...@gm...> wrote:
> > Well, if this is for the "auto-partition" mode, then I think we
> > definitely need to know how much space we got to play with ;)
> >
> > That way, the installer can allocate the necessary space for the
> > necessary partitions.
> >
> > On 8/14/07, uel archuletta < ue...@gm...> wrote:
> > > you shouldnt need to know the unused space on a partition only the
> partition
> > > size. since we should format the partitions, shouldnt we?
> > >
> > > Uel
> > >
>
>
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