Re: Update Debian Ports installation images 2021-04-14
Hello Carlos!
On 8/18/21 3:09 AM, Carlos Milán Figueredo wrote:
> First, thank you for the great work you do with the NetInst images for m68k,
> I really appreciate the effort of keeping Linux alive on this architecture.
You're welcome.
> I should have on my hands shortly a 060 accelerator for my Amiga 1200 that would
> allow me to test the image on real hardware. Meanwhile I tested it on WinUAE and
> it looks like most of the installation is working correctly. However I am hitting
> some difficulties with the disk partitioning.
>
> Before running the kernel and debian-installer I set up my harddrive with HDToolbox
> as told in [1].
Those installation instructions are ancient, so I don't recommend following them.
You should let the installer partition your hard disk, just let the Amiga create
the the affs partitions.
> It looks like the kernel can identify correctly my partition scheme as seen in [2]
> and... although the partitioner tool in the installer recognizes the harddisk at
> /dev/hda, it is not able to identify any existing partitions, as seen in [3].
You should switch to another console during installation and check the output of
$ cat /proc/partitions
> A test I was able to complete successfully is to open an installer console (ALT+F2)
> and format my partition /dev/hda3 with mkfs.ext2. I can also mount it on the console.
> However, regardless of that, the installer partitioner won't detect it. Is there
> something that I am missing?
No, this should not happen. I have no clue though what the issue is, I would have to
reproduce this issue myself.
> Some additional information:
> * Harddisk size: 32 GB
> - /dev/hda1 AFFS - 518 MB
> - /dev/hda2 AFFS - 12 GB
> - /dev/hda3 LNX\0 - 8 GB
> - /dev/hda4 SWP\0 - 512 MB
> - /dev/hda5 NBR\0 - 8 GB
> - /dev/hda6 NBS\0 - 512 MB
> * Emulated Amiga: 1200
> * ROM: 3.2 (the new one from Hyperion)
I don't know whether there are any compatibility issues with ROM version 3.2
as it has never been tested. Although I have these ROM versions myself in my
storage place.
FWIW, I never personally had success installing Debian on UAE but I haven't
tested that for a while.
Adrian
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