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[Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>]

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On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 13:07, Casey Harkins wrote:
> Sounds great! Would formatting the partitions be done at the beginning of
> the "transfer" step, or earlier in the iso flow as it is now. This might
> be a nice addition as well, if you hadn't already considered it.
>
> -casey

I was planning on leaving the partitioning and mounting where it already is, 
just moving all the mentioned items into the space between "mounting fs +" 
and "transfer sourcemage".
one of the reasons I still want the fs mounted then is so I can use sorcery 
and scribe in cross_install mode to provide descriptions and version of the 
optional packages.
I don't think it worthwhile having the grimoire uncompressed in the iso_root, 
(stable uncompressed is currently 56 MB) and I don't want to extract it into 
tmpfs (will kill machines with less than 64 MB ram I think, so low end, old 
hardware becomes useless)
So am thinking that the actual install will be three stages
1) mounting everything and installing sorcery and a grimoire
2) running all the queries, selecting which of the optional spells you want 
to 
install, then installing all spells.
3) checking what is installed to /etc/init.d/runlevels and offering a menu to 
turn on/off initscript/service starting.
Item 3) is only needed until cast supports the binary install ( cast -b) 
option we have discussed and reruns the init.d/xinetd queries during 
"resurrect"

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