Erik Andersen wrote:
>
> 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
I think Ben meant msdos partition *tables*, ie parted doesnt support
partitioning schemes that arent native to i386 architecture.
This got me wondering , exactly what other types of partition tables
would need to be supported by parted ?
Glenn
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