Re: [woody,debinst] (Was: Re: [dbootstrap] `newt' and `boxes.c', `bogl' and `bowl'[, `???' and `boxeX.c'?])
- To: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
- Cc: bug1 <bug1@netconnect.com.au>, "Karl M. Hegbloom" <karlheg@bittersweet.inetarena.com>, Bruce Sass <bsass@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>, Debian Boot <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
- Subject: Re: [woody,debinst] (Was: Re: [dbootstrap] `newt' and `boxes.c', `bogl' and `bowl'[, `???' and `boxeX.c'?])
- From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 22:44:13 -0600
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20000616224413.A3580@codepoet.org>
- Mail-followup-to: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, bug1 <bug1@netconnect.com.au>, "Karl M. Hegbloom" <karlheg@bittersweet.inetarena.com>, Bruce Sass <bsass@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>, Debian Boot <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
- Reply-to: andersen@codepoet.org
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20000617000251.V2865@visi.net>; from bcollins@debian.org on Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 12:02:51AM -0400
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On Sat Jun 17, 2000 at 12:02:51AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 09:44:31PM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > On Sat Jun 17, 2000 at 01:29:43PM +1000, bug1 wrote:
> > > > Red Hat's `libfdisk' contains a partition editor with a `newt'
> > > > interface. It might be possible to port it to our system and hook
> > > > that into our Woody `debinst' `dbootstrap'.
> > > >
> > > What about parted, it doesnt have much a of a GUI, but it wouldnt be
> > > hard to do i dont think.
> > > I think the ability to resize existing partitions (non destructivve
> > > install) is one most users would really like.
> >
> > Agreed re parted. I think a cool project would be hacking a GUI similar to
> > cfdisk into parted...
>
> Better get parted to support more than just msdos partitions before we
> even thing of using it in boot-floppies :)
???
Parted supports ext2.
http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/09/19/937790960.html
-Erik
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- From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
- Re: [woody,debinst] (Was: Re: [dbootstrap] `newt' and `boxes.c', `bogl' and `bowl'[, `???' and `boxeX.c'?])
- From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>