On  7.III.2004 at 10:28 Sven Luther wrote:
> 
> Anton, this afternoon, i will add per subarch information about
> partition types for powerpc, can you then make an upload once i have
> done that ? 

Look at the end of the file definitions.sh from the package "partman".

> Also, i guess it would be interesting to add a information message on
> how to best partition on a given subarch.
> 
> For example, yaboot needs a special partition on pmacs, and pegasos
> needs an affs partition if it is going to be used together with morphos,
> which is the native pegasos os. Also, pegasos 1 cannot yet boot from
> ext2 partitions, so and affs partition is needed 

Yes, for example the new partman-palo package is for the palo-boot
partitions on hppa.

>(but libparted cannot yet format those, need to fix that).

For partman the kernel-modules for affs and mkfs.affs are enough.

Anton Zinoviev


-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reply via email to