[openbeos] Re: Haiku distribution
- From: Ingo Weinhold <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:58:10 +0200
On 2007-04-14 at 18:22:40 [+0200], Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
[...]
> > Now a couple of questions: Has anyone started working on an Installer? I
> > would like to help there. Secondly what is the status of Drive Setup?
> > Has it been started at all or are you planning to use GNU Parted?
> > Couldn't find info on that.
>
> There are some basics of the installer. I remember it used part of
> Tracker's code for copying files, but I'm not sure about the GUI (I'm
> on my Windows laptop at the moment.)
>
> Drive Setup is mostly non-existent at this point. It was one of the
> 1001 projects I wanted to work on, but I haven't had time for it for a
> while. We do want some similar functionality to Parted, and the new
> Disk Device Management API can provide a lot of this. The problem we
> have is that the DDM has to be completed before a fully working Drive
> Setup GUI can be completed. I have some initial (hand) drawings of the
> GUI mock-up I was thinking for the new Drive Setup, and I might make
> some bitmap versions as well for people to comment on.
>
> Obviously if someone else has more time and has experience with disk
> management, feel free to work on this.
Three students showed interest in working on the DDM stuff as a project for
some class, including a CLI partitioning tool. If that turns out not to be
enough work, a GUI tool would be an extension.
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=45E35762.9020602%40overmind.net&forum_name=open-beos-kernel-devel
So I would advise anyone who wants to work on a DriveSetup tool to follow
what they are doing (or will be doing).
CU, Ingo
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