On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 12:51:28PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > Ethan, your mac-fdisk document should really be added to the Debian/PPC install > > > doc. Invaluable. > > > > Good idea - want to add that to CVS, Ethan? > > I'm currently reworking the mac-fdisk man page (which should be in the > install section) to cover the 'reorder to place bootstrap partition before > MacOS' trick. Plus I've fixed the problem with reordering partitions - on > shifting partitions downward, there was a stupid off-by-one error in the > code so the new partition index was always one less than intended. Very > confusing when moving partition 4 to position 5 :-) Right now the correct > semantics of reordering is 'insert partition <old> _before_ partition <new> > but that doesn't seem the obvious one. ah cool, i did notice that the broken man page link seems to have been fixed since last time i looked. i still think my doc would be useful to have in the debian install docs since its a more step by step example of the partitioning process, to some this can be easier to follow then a man page. i was looking at just adding a second link next to the man page link. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
Attachment:
pgpNIWfdPKt3c.pgp
Description: PGP signature