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> I can understand chris's position. but it would be nice if he would |
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> consider the development of a script for the "livecd" that could |
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> extract the stage4 on it and include documentation in the handbook on |
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> how to do it. |
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being done for next release. i'm assuming you meant stage3 here. |
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> because as is the installers don't allow for enough flexibility. |
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on the contrary, most of our problems in the installer come from |
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offering too much flexibility. |
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I personally would like to know who decided to put bottom |
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> and I think top partition size limits in the installer. the limits |
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> should have been dictated by the filesystem limits themselves. |
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partition limits are decided by the size of the drive and the other |
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partitions on it. |
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> another option might be a "skip section" of the |
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> installer." that way we can on do the stage4 part, and forget the rest |
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> if we want. would any of this be such a hard and impossible thing for |
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> releng to do and support? |
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this support already exists. the installer has modes for stage4 and |
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chroot installations. |
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-Codeman |
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