Re: Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation

2005-01-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 08:50:48PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: Michael == Michael Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael s/MockOS/MacOS/g Michael to anything but Apple_Bootstrap, Apple_HFS, Michael Apple_UNIX_SVR2 or Apple_Free. If you're sure (or just

Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation

2005-01-11 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Sven == Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sven On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 08:50:48PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad Sven wrote: I created a partition with type Linux_LVM and name LVM_Test using mac-fdisk. I put an ext3 file system on the partition so I could fsck/mount it to

Re: Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation

2005-01-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 06:45:00AM -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: Sven == Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sven On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 08:50:48PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad Sven wrote: I created a partition with type Linux_LVM and name LVM_Test using mac-fdisk. I put

Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation

2005-01-10 Thread Michael Schmitz
Parted converts flags to funky partition type names, i think. Not idea, but it works, like said, i think parted is inherently broken on this, but there is not much we can do at this time. They might have done this following a comment of mine (my memory id fuzzy on this, not

Re: Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation

2005-01-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 11:13:07AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: Parted converts flags to funky partition type names, i think. Not idea, but it works, like said, i think parted is inherently broken on this, but there is not much we can do at this time. They might have

Re: Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation

2005-01-10 Thread Michael Schmitz
Why? Because we don't know how MockOS will react to a partition _type_ set I don't know any MockOS, please provide real examples. s/MockOS/MacOS/g to anything but Apple_Bootstrap, Apple_HFS, Apple_UNIX_SVR2 or Apple_Free. If you're sure (or just reasonably confident) Linux_LVM will be

Re: Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation

2005-01-10 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 12:49:45PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: Why? Because we don't know how MockOS will react to a partition _type_ set I don't know any MockOS, please provide real examples. s/MockOS/MacOS/g to anything but Apple_Bootstrap, Apple_HFS, Apple_UNIX_SVR2 or

Re: Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation

2005-01-10 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Michael == Michael Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael s/MockOS/MacOS/g Michael to anything but Apple_Bootstrap, Apple_HFS, Michael Apple_UNIX_SVR2 or Apple_Free. If you're sure (or just Michael reasonably confident) Linux_LVM will be ignored by Michael

Re: Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation

2005-01-07 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello, On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:32:57PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: I was using d-i daily build for powerpc (Jan 4, 2005) to install on an Apple Dual G5 (PowerMac7,3). I find that the LVM menu items in the installer do not work in a manner very similar to what is described in this bug

Re: Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation

2005-01-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:08:37AM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: Hello, On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:32:57PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: I was using d-i daily build for powerpc (Jan 4, 2005) to install on an Apple Dual G5 (PowerMac7,3). I find that the LVM menu items in the installer do

Re: Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation

2005-01-07 Thread Helge Kreutzmann
Hello, On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 10:55:09AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: No, lvm could be added to partman in no time, but Colin Watson voted against this, and rightly so, since he claimed that we should not use a quick hack, but come to a consensus on the way of doing this with both the d-i team

Re: Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation

2005-01-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:00:48AM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: Hello, On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 10:55:09AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: No, lvm could be added to partman in no time, but Colin Watson voted against this, and rightly so, since he claimed that we should not use a quick hack, but

Re: Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation

2005-01-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 02:48:59PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: Ok. The main problem is that there is no LVM flag for mac partition tables, i There is no such thing as flags for most things in Mac partition tables Parted converts flags to funky partition type names, i think. Not idea,

Re: Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation

2005-01-07 Thread Michael Schmitz
Ok. The main problem is that there is no LVM flag for mac partition tables, i There is no such thing as flags for most things in Mac partition tables (I'm sure there are some unused bits somewhere in the partition data but that's all undocumented and Apple could come and change the meaning of

Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation

2005-01-07 Thread Michael Schmitz
There is no such thing as flags for most things in Mac partition tables Parted converts flags to funky partition type names, i think. Not idea, but it works, like said, i think parted is inherently broken on this, but there is not much we can do at this time. They might have done this

Re: Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation

2005-01-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 05:53:40PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: There is no such thing as flags for most things in Mac partition tables Parted converts flags to funky partition type names, i think. Not idea, but it works, like said, i think parted is inherently broken on this, but

Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation

2005-01-07 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Sven == Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sven No, lvm could be added to partman in no time, but Colin Sven Watson voted against this, and rightly so, since he claimed Sven that we should not use a quick hack, but come to a consensus Sven on the way of doing this with both

Re: Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation

2005-01-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 07 January 2005 21:21, Shyamal Prasad wrote: Does the Sarge ppc installation manual needs an update for the powermac exception then? Should I file a bug against the manual? I could probably write a patch for the manual (in English) if it was desired - the source for the manual is in

Re: Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation

2005-01-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:21:35PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: Sven == Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sven No, lvm could be added to partman in no time, but Colin Sven Watson voted against this, and rightly so, since he claimed Sven that we should not use a quick

Re: Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation

2005-01-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 07 January 2005 23:43, Sven Luther wrote: As i understand manual modifications are too late anyway [...]. Not quite true. Because of the module versions issue in the kernel / toolchain the window of opportunity to make changes to the manual in time for the CD's was opened

Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation

2005-01-06 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Hi, I was using d-i daily build for powerpc (Jan 4, 2005) to install on an Apple Dual G5 (PowerMac7,3). I find that the LVM menu items in the installer do not work in a manner very similar to what is described in this bug report (though this report is for a x86 machine). Basically I cannot