On 15.III.2004 at 19:17 Sven Luther wrote: > > Well, the problem is as follows : > > 1) the -powerpc kernel used in most 32 bit powerpc installs has the ext3 > fs builtin. > > 2) the -powerpc-small kernel used in oldworld pmacs, but not yet > supported by d-i, has a ext3 module.
This complicates things. partman-ext3 depends on ext3-modules and as a result ext3-modules will be installed even on newworld pmacs. I suppose that the best solution of this would be the newworld kernel package to declare "Provides: ext3-modules". > Partman wrongly supposes that ext3 is modular, and follows up into > installing and insmodding the -powerpc-small modules into the -powerpc > kernel. No idea if this succeeds or not, but this is dead wrong. If it succeeds then partman-ext3 will consider ext3 as valid file systems. Otherwise partman-ext3 will find ext3 in /proc/filesystems and as a result ext3 will be again a valid file system. I don't know why this is not so. (By the way partman-ext3 has this behaviour only since version 17 from 14 Mar 2004 11:04:29 +0200. The versions before 17 ignore /proc/filesystems. It is possible that you used somewhat older version of partman-ext3.) > Maybe the search for ext3 in /proc/filesystems could be moved well up > this list ? Yes, this can be done. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
