>>>>> On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 05:56:58 -0500, Joseph Rawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said:
Hi Joseph, > Please let me know if there's anything that's really important that I may not > be aware of. I've been looking at the disk_config directory, and it looks > like the config files have changed a bit. Yes, the disk_config format was enhanced, so it now supports software raid and lvm. > I was wondering if y'all think that using partman would be a more permanent > solution to the problem of setting up the disks. I did a look at partman long time ago. IMO partman is a solution that is tied to much to the debian installer. It was created to give a shell interface to a C++ library (libparted). It's nearly impossible to use it without the installer environment. That's why I'm happy that the new setup-storage is using parted, without using partman. > very heavily with the debian installer environment, and it's difficult to > extricate it from that environment, or even to run it from a > chroot. That's excatly what I discoverd. > I've been spending the last couple of weeks trying to get it to do this. The > people working on live-helper would also like to see the debian-installer > usable from a regular debian system, instead of the restrictive busybox > environment that it's made to work with. I think that will be a lot of work, and the d-i people may not be interested in doing this work. > others. I think that having the partman package running on debian as a > normal package, or packages, would be a very valuable tool. Having the setup-storage tool as a seperate Debian package is the better solution IMO. > Thanks again for all the work that you've put into fai. This program has > inspired what I've been doing for a long time now! :) You're welcome. I'm always very interested in user experiences with FAI. Can you please fill out the FAI questionnaire http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/questionnaire and send it back to me when you finished a project with fai. P.S.: in the README file http://svn.berlios.de/wsvn/paella/trunk/README you say >This project is inspired heavily by fai (fully automatic install) by Thomas Lange >fai's homepage -- http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/ Maybe you can correct this, FAI stands for Fully Automatic Installation. -- regards Thomas