Onsdag 28 november 2007 16:38, skrev Steffen Kaiser: > attached you'll find a first implementation of the partition-by-script > idea.
I have not had the time to test/try this, but it looks like we getting somewhere :-) > > The "part-i.bat" script is the template - more or less; it also serves as > the "interactive partition" menu entry. > I really have to look more into it, but its seems to be fine for me. > I have a problem, though: > > parted -s /dev/dsk -- mklabel msdos > > does print a warning, but does nothing. It is to erase the partition > table. Any ideas someone? Lately I have been using dd to blank the partition table to be sure to remove any old cruft while testing. This is not a good final solution of course.. Andreas started a new thread about parted, I posted what I think should be done there :-) > > If fdisk_cmds matches "disk_script:(\S+)", the new script-based partition > scheme is used. Each script is a DOS batch script, for Linux, the file is > read and, beginning with "# Linux portion", each line matching /^\s*[^#:]/ > is executed by system(). > > Future improvements if the stuff is OK so far: > Display the menu without filename and sort by description. Is it possible to put these files in its own directory? We can add this later of course. > > Question: Is the 4GB-partition hack still necessary for the > Linux-bootdisk? I dont know, but when windows takes over it will take the free space it can get and convert to ntfs (if told so by unattend.txt). It should be investigated, but this is also something we can do later.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ unattended-devel mailing list unattended-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel
