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

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On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 06:03, Casey Harkins wrote:
> 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.
> > >
> > > -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)
>
> 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
>

yes, it can be changed later, but having /etc/ writable and being able to use 
the hard disk before "transfer" has simplified the install considerably.
Checking for bad blocks does take a long time, but I don't think 
backgrounding 
it would speed up the install, and it'd actually stop the use of sorcery, 
gaze and simple file copying for the setup section until the checking had 
finished, so at this stage backgrounding it or delaying it won't help at all 
(the setup section is now backgrounded immediately after last partition is 
mounted, when you now start configuring the other options, starting with 
timezone) 



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