Re: Partitioning in the installer

["Dom (shymega) Rodriguez" <shymega@shymega.org.uk>]

On 28.10.2025 11:08, Alyssa Ross wrote:
>"Dom (shymega) Rodriguez" <shymega@shymega.org.uk> writes:
>
>> On 27.10.2025 18:05, Alyssa Ross wrote:
>>>Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> I'm working on updates and am very close to getting something that at
>>>> least runs.  However, the installer doesn't support more than three
>>>> partitions, so I have to create the others manually.
>>>>
>>>> Where would the best place to address this be?  I'm not sure if this
>>>> needs a patch to the installer's C source code, or if I should fix
>>>> it in a script somewhere.
>>>
>>>Did you look at how GNOME OS does this yet?
>>
>> I've worked with the build tooling for GNOME OS as part of $dayjob, so
>> if any help is needed understanding the structure, feel free to ping me
>> on Matrix :-)
>>
>> It's [GNOME OS] based on freedesktop-sdk with Buildstream for
>> integration. `genimage` is probably what you're after?
>
>I think what we're specifically interested in is actually the GNOME OS
>installer, rather than the image generator.
>
>Do they have an installer that copies a disk image / partition images to
>the target disk?  Does the installer image also provide a live GNOME OS
>environment?  Do they have A/B updates?  How do those partitions get
>created in the install process?

Probably a question to ask in the GNOME OS Matrix channel, if there is
one. 

Does Spectrum support A/B updates? Perhaps ChromeOS is worth a look at
for inspiration of implementation detail.

Best wishes,
--
Dom Rodriguez