Re: Install on 4MB Atari TT
Hi,
>Read the source.
Care to give a more detailrd hint where to look?
>In this case init looks for /etc/swappartition, calls swapon and
>continues.
Ok, that's been my mistake. I thought I read "/etc/swapdevice" in your mail.
>It only refuses work when /etc/swappartition does not exist. And
>/etc/swappartition is created by the lowmem install process, which is
>explained in install.html. And when init refuses to do the install it
>tells you it tells you "Read the instructions in the install.html
>file." Everything is there. Everything but the lowmem image.
install.html is a tiny bit i386-biased. It's not in the Amiga, Atari or
Mac install.html - because the lowmem ramdisk doesn't exist.
>Right now my problem is that I don't know a way to create Atari-like
>partitions, and I didn't find an fdisk on the 1.4MB root or the Debian
It's not on the 1.4 MB ramdisk, but it is on the Debian root.bin (three, one each
for Amiga, Atari, Mac). Look for [amiga,atari,mac]-fdisk. And I think we had
a fdisk script at one time, that would call the appropriate machine's fdisk.
But editing the partition table of the disk you're booted from won't work anyway.
>root. (Currently I have DOS partitions on the disk, and that's fine
>for the kernel, but dinstall uses internal partition table reading
>code that seems to require Atari-style partitioning.)
Another hardcoded thing, yes. I've had the same experience (with a Mac format disk
on Atari). It's a bit exotic but maybe worth fixing. The partition table stuff was
Roman's part IIRC?
Michael
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