On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 04:59:36AM -0400, Mark Duckworth wrote: > 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.
Good :-) > > 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. Okay. > > 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 ;) Rotfl. That one is going into my fortune file ;-) -- The amount of time between slipping on the peel and landing on the pavement is precisely one bananosecond -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
