PowerPC install on a powerbook G4

[Lakin Wecker <nikal@nucleus.com>]

Well I just tried the sid_d-i install images for today, May 24, 2004, and I 
must say that I am impressed, and grateful to all the folks who have been 
donating their time to this project.

This time it worked for everything except one thing:  I had to drop to a shell 
and udpkg -i <dhcp package>.  I went back to the dhcp configuration and it 
went smoothly from there. 

The first suggestion I have is for yaboot-installer.   It found the two 
bootable partitions that I had, but it only listed the extremely long and 
undecipherable(for a newer user) /dev/ide/host0/.../lun0/part(2|3) names.  
Perhaps this list should include the partition names.  Which brings me to 
another point.   

Although I'm quite capable of partitioning the drives myself, I hate doing it.  
I'd much prefer to have a tool figure it out for me based on some heuristics.  
Having said that: I _love_ the guided partitioner.  So I used that again to 
partition the drive and it added the correct yaboot partition for me.  

Couldn't the partitioner and yaboot installer come up with a quick way for 
them to communicate about the correct bootstrap partition.  Perhaps 
automatically name the yaboot partition "bootstrap" which is what is 
recommended almost everywhere that I've seen.  Then the yaboot-installer 
could do a quick search for a bootable partition named "bootstrap" and 
default to this.  

The only other suggestion I have is for the partitioner.  When the user 
chooses "free space" for the automated partitioning, perhaps a quick search 
could be done for a useable swap partition which already exists and ask about 
using this.

This turned out to be a bit longer than I originally planned, but there it is.

Thanks again,

Lakin Wecker