Re: Call for m68k/atari debian-installer test

[Didier MEQUIGNON <didier.mequignon@free.fr>]

> On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 08:47:39PM +0200, Didier MEQUIGNON wrote:
> >  >>Unforunately, it turns out that I didn't pay enough attention to the
> >  >>way the "old" partition formatter/mounter (partconf) works. It uses
> >  >>parted to list out partitions. In other words, both the new and the old
> >  >
> >  >>code that handles partitioning, formatting, mountng, fstab-generation,
> >  >>and the like, depend on parted to some extent.
> >  >
> >  >Don't go in the wrong direction. Even with the new d-i all partitions
> >  >are listed correctly. It just fails when installing the base system.
> >
> >  I have only the list of drives, installing the base system fails because
> >  before "Configure and mount partitions " fails => "No partitions 
> > were found in
> >  your system". There are just an access to drives before this error.
> >  Nevertheless I can mount manually partitions but the new d-i see nothing.
>
> I think that somehow it's related to that drive being a zip, but I
> really don't know.

I have also debian potato installed on hda9, equally not found by the 
new installer.

> Would you try this for me?
>
> Mount the zip on /target. Then go back to the menu and select Install
> Base. I'm not sure if it will let you do that or not, but I'm beginning
> to think that it should.

Well, I can install the Debian base system on the zip drive actually 
in progress   at 70 %. I think try later...

Regards,

Didier.

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