Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 23:31:40 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Peter Korsten <peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall (was Re: Conclusion to "NT vs. Unix" debate) Message-ID: <19984.873181900@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Sep 1997 23:45:02 CDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.970901233729.307W-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
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> You underestimate the difficulty in getting the chaining right > simultaneously from a usability point of view and a technical > point of view, but otherwise, yes. > > For a tradeoff example, do you do the partitioning or > distribution selection first? If you do partitioning first, the > distribution selection can advise you about what will fit. But, > if the distributions are selected first, then the user (or the > system) can make more informed choices about partitioning. This is where dependencies enter the picture. Distribution selection will depend on some list of partitions either being known to the installer, e.g. the upgrade case where we've gone and mounted a bunch of pre-existing stuff using the old fstab file for hints, or registered as pending, e.g. they'll be created before the extraction step takes place but don't exist now. Either way, the distribution selection "black box" has a map of available space. Jordan
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