[arch-releng] AIF Feature Request: Partial Automatic install?

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 06:41:49 -0700
Smartboy <smartboyathome at gmail.com> wrote:

> Would there be any way for AIF to be able to allow the user to select
> partitions, and then everything else be automatic? IE, the user
> selects the partitions (and layout) they want, then it uses a profile
> to fill in the rest (like autodetecting the configuration) and
> install.
> 
> Smartboy

Sure, just take the generic-install-on-sda example, and
override the worker_prepare_disks function from the automatic procedure
to do what you want. you probably want to call the
interactive_autoprepare , interactive_partition or
interactive_filesystems functions.

Dieter