On Wed, 4 May 2005, Steve Langasek wrote: > d-i does use swriteboot to install aboot to the disk. That's not the issue. > The issue is the same that it's always been: Tru64 doesn't cope with > disklabels that don't include a full-disk slice, and the debian-installer > can't reasonably create such a slice for us (for various and sundry reasons > that have been discussed on this list before). >
Sorry to beat a dead horse, but I am trying to understand the installer's operation in the context of a PRE-existing Tru64 label, where the full-disk slice already exists and thus does not have to be created by the installer. Are you saying that the installer modifies the pre-existing label so that no partitions cover block 0, which would in turn allow swriteboot to be called without '-f'? Thanks, Toni ------------------------------------------------------------------- Toni Harbaugh-Blackford [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator Advanced Biomedical Computing Center (ABCC) National Cancer Institute Contractor - SAIC/Frederick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
