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So after finding out parted isn’t that well documented. Or at least not to start with. Once you are busy it is not that hard (at least until now… nobody knows what the next line of code will bring :P).

So i now basically have an the listing of the partitions on a device working. I can create new partitions and delete them. Now i need to make this all a little bit more flexible. But that is of later concern. Now i’m going to grab some cake and relax.

So after some days of doing some coding on the Seed installer. It now takes some shape. Currently i’m working on stage 2 of the installer. Wich just means. Read an xml file. parse it. Let people select a seed to download and actually download that seed and install it. And well almost everything of that is working.

So far (after some debugging) no memleaks or errors according to valgrind. So that is a good point.

I have to look into the tar and wget libraries but damn that is a pain in the ass. For some reason they arn’t that well documentated. Ah well i’ll figure it out.

So today i officially entered the gentoo seeds project. I really like the seeds idea (read the website for more info). And am very excited about it. My current job is to write an installer. This does not has to be to fancy but has to allow a easy use while we (can you speak of gardeners when i mean the maintainers of the seeds?) keep control. I’m not starting at the beginning since that would be a hell of a lot of work. It involves the partitioning of the harddrive. And to be honest i have never done that so that will be quite a challenge.