[cAos-devel] System Imager

[Martyn]

Michael Jennings wrote:
> I have ISO's which have done successful installs under qemu, but I'm
> holding off on calling them "2.3" until I can put the 2.6.20.x kernel
> on there.
>   
And let's try and get some clarification on why greg doesn't trust
/proc/partitions.

Greg: in scan_partitions of cinch, you're using fdisk to clarify if a
partition is real by looking for "no valid".... unfortunately if there
has been an extended partition at the block where the partition starts,
there is a valid partition table.   Also on some winXP installs, there
seems to be a backup of the partition table in the first block of the
NTFS partition, so to install on these, I have had to dd if=/dev/zero
of=/dev/hda1....

That's not really a sensible way to get cinch to see the partitions to
install to.  Also, my preference is not to create extended partitions
unless they're needed, so for the base 4-partition scheme for cAos-2, I
would prefer to see hda1-4 not hda1-3 and 5!
> I guess I could post them as pre-release ISO's if folks want to test
> them, though...
>   
Well, I'm not so desperate, but maybe others are :-)
> Michael
>   
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Martyn (Joran)