Re: Install on 4MB Atari TT

[Michael Schmitz <SCHMITZ@LCBVAX.CCHEM.BERKELEY.EDU>]

Hi,

>> and I didn't find an fdisk on the 1.4MB root or the Debian root.
>
>I think at the time the 1.4MB root was created, no atari-fdisk yet
>existed. But on the Debian root disk, there should be
>/sbin/atari-fdisk and /sbin/fdisk as a symlink to it. You can also get
>it from the package 'atari-fdisk' (for m68k) or 'atari-fdisk-cross'
>(for i386).

The atari-fdisk-cross is what Sven needs for the disk (the root.bin won't fit
on a floppy, I've not got it smaller than 1600k with ext2).

>> (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.)
>
>It shouldn't. The partition table parser should be able to read all
>kinds of partition tables.

It sure is, but for some reason the HFS partitions weren't accessible on my
Falcon either. Maybe it only tries the native partition format and no others?

	Michael