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Need dosfstools and mtools for UEFI install #16

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ghost opened this issue May 21, 2020 · 4 comments
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Need dosfstools and mtools for UEFI install #16

ghost opened this issue May 21, 2020 · 4 comments

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ghost commented May 21, 2020

It appears dosfstools and mtools are not present on install for working with a FAT32 filesystem for the ESP partition. I did a word search on the zif and no occurrence of either package? Am I mistaken that these two should be included? Thanks.

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They are now included in the ISO, but I'll have to include them in the utilities portion of the extra apps list

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ghost commented May 22, 2020

Would it not be better to just specify dosfstools and mtools in your #installing base pacstrap command? They are going to be needed anyway by any user who wants to mount and format a FAT32 formatted flash drive. I noticed you specify e2fsprogs in that pacstrap line (as I do as well), and the dos formatting tools are just as necessary. Just a thought. :)

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That's definitely a thought, I always thought of it like "I don't force the btrfs-progs on people if they don't have that file system", but I guess that doesn't apply to FAT filesystems since they are ubiquitous on usb's and sd cards

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Also @eznix55 can you email me at zeninstaller at tutanota dot com? I have a question for you

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