[gentoo-alpha] Gentoo Installer partitioning arch support

[gentoo-alpha] Gentoo Installer partitioning arch support

[Nathaniel McCallum]

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Sorry to cross post like this, but this is the best way to reach
everyone.  We at the GentooInstaller project are beginning work on our
partitioning section, one of the arch dependant aspects of the
installation.  I need to know if sfdisk will work as a scriptable
replacement for fdisk on all the various arches.  If you aren't sure,
could you test it, and get back to me?  Thanks!

Nathaniel McCallum

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[gentoo-alpha] Re: [gentoo-ppc-dev] Gentoo Installer partitioning arch support

[Nathaniel McCallum]

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On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 02:58 +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> > Sorry to cross post like this, but this is the best way to reach
> > everyone.  We at the GentooInstaller project are beginning work on our
> > partitioning section, one of the arch dependant aspects of the
> > installation.  I need to know if sfdisk will work as a scriptable
> > replacement for fdisk on all the various arches.  If you aren't sure,
> > could you test it, and get back to me?  Thanks!
> > 
> > Nathaniel McCallum
> you can't use sfdisk on ppc,could we use parted for everybody? It 
> has/should have support for every diskslice/partition format we use and 
> should allow us to repartition dinamically on x86.
> 
> Comments?
The plan was to originally use parted (which I still prefer).  I made an
ebuild for redhat's parted python bindings (in bugzilla), but it isn't
in portage yet (needs a patch and version bump on parted).  HOWEVER, I
don't believe parted supports all arches.  Specifically, I believe
parted has "minors" hard coded as type int, which doesn't work on one
arch (I believe alpha) as it uses letter based minors.  I could be wrong
though... But to your knowledge parted DOES work on ppc?  Anyone else?
Does parted work on your arch?  Thanks!

Nathaniel

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