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Sat, 1 Nov 2025 13:40:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from THOR-LINUX (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by THOR-LINUX.localdomain (Postfix) with SMTP id 0353D21B2C; Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:34:58 +0000 (UTC) Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2025 00:34:57 +0000 From: "Dom (shymega) Rodriguez" To: Alyssa Ross Subject: Re: Partitioning in the installer Message-ID: <22pbghmhuo23llkqsmbdjmt4xvicef7u3hyilo5nqstc46fvvs@sehbolcp6b3u> References: <4c4d1e69-1290-4079-90a4-c90615826e7e@gmail.com> <87ecqo8ebt.fsf@alyssa.is> <87tszjmj83.fsf@alyssa.is> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87tszjmj83.fsf@alyssa.is> Message-ID-Hash: G4VU5ZG7J2ZEOLODPGW24INY5BY3GD52 X-Message-ID-Hash: G4VU5ZG7J2ZEOLODPGW24INY5BY3GD52 X-MailFrom: shymega@shymega.org.uk X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-devel.spectrum-os.org-0; header-match-devel.spectrum-os.org-1; header-match-devel.spectrum-os.org-2; header-match-devel.spectrum-os.org-3; header-match-devel.spectrum-os.org-4; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: Demi Marie Obenour , Spectrum OS Development X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.9 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and low-level development discussion Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On 28.10.2025 11:08, Alyssa Ross wrote: >"Dom (shymega) Rodriguez" writes: > >> On 27.10.2025 18:05, Alyssa Ross wrote: >>>Demi Marie Obenour 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