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

Smartboy smartboyathome at gmail.com
Mon Apr 6 15:09:15 EDT 2009


On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Dieter Plaetinck <dieter at plaetinck.be> wrote:
> 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
>

Ah, thanks! I was wondering how this was done.

Smartboy


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