On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 10:42 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 06:26:10PM -0400, Mark Duckworth wrote: > > Hey guys, > > > > I'd like to help in any possible way I can with testing, porting, etc. > > I have 2 Atari TT030's, a Nova Mach64 video card on one, a Falcon030 > > with a CT60 and 80MHz 060, and 2 good installations of ARAnyM on fast > > hardware. Also have a Mega STe but I don't think that's much help ;) > > Great! > > I don't know what you are capable of doing, but there currently is lack > of support by Debian-installer for installing sarge on Atari systems. > The main reason here is the fact that the Atari partition format isn't > supported by parted. If you think you're up to that, it'd be nice if you > could code the support for that into parted. There is supposed to be > documentation for the on-disk format of the partition table that Atari > computers use, but I don't know where this can be found (anyone?) >
Linux kernel supports atari partition table format. Maybe the source would be helpful. I've done applications programming in C, but nothing system level yet. I'm willing to attempt anything though. > If that's outside your league, there are still more things you could do. > Christian Steigies and Michael Schmitz both have a CT060, but they're > having problems setting it up; if yours is running correctly and running > Debian, perhaps you could help them fix their issues. > Not running debian yet. That's the first thing to do is get that installed. I'll have to repartition my disk as I have like a 20gig partition dedicated to mint that could be shrank a bit ;) I'll probably just buy another hdd instead to dedicate for debian stuff. > Other than that, generally using and testing Debian unstable or testing > on actual m68k hardware is also very useful (provided you file bugs when > you find them :). > I used gentoo for a long time, so I'm very good at filing bugs ;) Thanks, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
