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[Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>]

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Hamish Greig wrote:

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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.
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> > -casey
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> 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)


Agreed. 

The reason I suggested this, is that formatting each partition (especially
if checking for bad blocks) is somewhat time consuming. Having to
wait/interact for each partition can slow down the install a bit (unless
you're just sitting at the machine waiting). Perhaps the mounting step
could be re-written to record the filesystem types, mount location,
whether to check for bad blocks, then do all the formatting at once at the
end of the mount step.

This is something that could always be done in the future as the mount 
step is pretty self contained.

-casey