On Monday 15 September 2008 07:35:24 Thomas Lange wrote: > >>>>> 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. > I think that this may be the case, also. I haven't bothered them about it yet, as I know they're busy getting ready for lenny.
The people working on debian live have expressed interest in getting the debian installer to run in a live environment, instead of having to reboot into it. This is why I mentioned it, since there are other people interested in this. > > 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. > I'll mention setup-storage to the debian live people. I think that they have their hearts set on using the debian installer, but they haven't tried to run it yet, so they may be more interested in using setup-storage once they get started trying to hack on the debian installer. > > 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. > I just filled it out and sent it. > 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. I just finished correcting it. That README is so far out of date, it probably needs to be re-written from scratch. I've been using the website to hold the documentation and I have been neglecting the README file over the years. In fact, it seems that the website is getting out of date too. -- Thanks: Joseph Rawson
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