reassign 241817 partman thanks On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 12:04:48AM -0700, Brett Wuth wrote: > Package: install > Severity: important > > Using the sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso image as of 2004-04-01, I > attempted to install Debian on an iMac. The install failed because it > did not create a partition for yaboot.
Well, if i understood this correctly, this is only a symptom of a larger deficiency in partman. It was already a great thing to have partman be the default for beta3, but i guess that we should fine tune this for beta4. The idea is that some hardware configurations needs some particular partitions to be there (like a prep boot partition or a palo boot partition, or the yaboot boot partition on pmac), or even some filesystem to be used for the /boot partition (like affs on pegasos 1). We need to get partman to be smarter, and guide the user through the creation of those partitions trully needed for his given arch. I believe that this can be achieved by having some per arch, subarch and particular case proposal of partitioning and mounting in partman, doubled with a per arch/subarch/... choice of pre-configured partition tables, and a warning to the user in case he doesn't mount the partitions as is needed on the hardware in question. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
