Re: [Vectorlinux-devel] The installer

[Jose J. R. <jo...@gm...>]

On 9/4/07, Eug=E9ne Suter <ea...@gm...> wrote:
> On 05/09/07, Jose J. Rodriguez <jo...@gm...> wrote:
> > I've been following that thread and even had a quick look at the
> > libparted manual, but it's too damned obscure for a simple quick
> > look... What I propose is that we concentrate first on installing to a
> > full drive and to empty space. An old teacher of mine taught me as a
> > kid that you should always answer the easier questions on a test
> > first, to put them behind you... :)
>
> Indeed, I just hate being defeated by a computer... :\
>

I always had this unwritten TODO item, which I discussed with Uel at
one point, to use libparted and build-in our own dedicated partitioner
with only the stuff needed for an installer. However, I figured we
should not reinvent the wheel till we actually had a working
installer. After that, the sky's the limit... ;)

>
> > I believe a first version of the installer would be functional enough
> > with a simple note that you should use a liveCD if you need to resize
> > partitions. Let's get something working first, then build from there.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Joe1962
>
> Meanwhile, uelsk8s has brought a couple of useful commands to my attentio=
n,
> probedisk and disktype (actually probepart as well, but its a script that
> uses probedisk and disktype).
> At least from a first look, it seems like probedisk and disktype combined
> can give all the info that fdisk + parted could. So it looks like its
> possible after all :)
>

Dang, I put a lot of work into that international-ready fdisk
parser... :(  It probably works at least for all languages that use
our number characters, since I tested a lot of them, some of which I
couldn't even read what I was doing, lol.

Regards,
Joe1962