Re: Partitioning in the installer

[Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>]

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"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?

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