Bug#239816: libparted Atari partition table support

2013-12-14 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 12/14/2013 02:26 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: The ST, maybe (except for the only-in-museums part), but the TT and Falcon run Debian GNU/Linux just finely. Linux ara5.mirbsd.org 3.11-2-m68k #1 Debian 3.11.7-1 (2013-11-09) m68k GNU/Linux

Bug#239816: libparted Atari partition table support

2013-12-14 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 12/14/2013 06:12 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: On 12/14/2013 02:26 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: The ST, maybe (except for the only-in-museums part), but the TT and Falcon run Debian GNU/Linux just finely. Linux ara5.mirbsd.org 3.11-2-m68k #1

Bug#239816: libparted Atari partition table support

2013-12-13 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hi! While chatting with someone who was trying to install Linux onto his ATARI Falcon 060, we stumbled into the task getting the hard disk partitioned for the ATARI Falcon to be used. Since I already successfully created an Amiga partition table with the help of gparted and libparted, I thought

Bug#239816: libparted Atari partition table support

2013-12-13 Thread Michael Schmitz
John, as long as libparted (or some other PC side kernel magic automagically invoked by libparted - dm??) does take care of byte-swapping IDE data on the fly, go for it. I had a quick glance at the code and could find nothing to that effect. Otherwise, your only option would be to run

Bug#239816: libparted Atari partition table support

2013-12-13 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 12/13/2013 05:54 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hi! While chatting with someone who was trying to install Linux onto his ATARI Falcon 060, we stumbled into the task getting the hard disk partitioned for the ATARI Falcon to be used. I

Bug#239816: libparted Atari partition table support

2013-12-13 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Phillip Susi dixit: While chatting with someone who was trying to install Linux onto his ATARI Falcon 060, we stumbled into the task getting the hard disk partitioned for the ATARI Falcon to be used. I must be missing something... isn't this a 30 year old relic that only exists in museums and