Re: Will deity be ready for 2.0? (fwd)
Hi,
> For the dinstall rewrite, please consider the changes I made to the dinstall
> script to support the Mac architecture.
has somebody include these diffs to the cvs tree? Maybe I should install ssh
here to get the cvs tree to my "home" computer.
> AFAIK we're up to date on libc6. I've adapted the old boot ramdisk (floppy is
> a misfit here, with only Atari having proper install floppies) to work with
> James' base2_0 to support beta testing the installation procedure while
> work on the 2.0 boot floppies continues.
Did you also upload the new root.bin?
> >to track continuing changes in these packages: libc-pic, slang-pic,
> >newt, popt, boot-floppies, base-files, util-linux. The Amiga has its
> >own disk partitioning, and we need help with that (Enrico Zanardi is
> >working on that part). Other systems that diverge from the boot floppy
> >tool set should be brought to our attention.
Next week I'm busy, but then I'll try to build the root.bin for m68k.
> Atari and Mac also have their own disk partitioning tools. The fundamental
> differences in the partition formats make integrating these tools into a
> common tool very difficult, at least with respect to editing the partition
> tables. Michael Schlueter solved that problem by writing a wrapper script
> to select the proper tool, which will probably not work with a C dinstall.
Maybe, but there is already a new lib to parse the fdisk output. It should also
know the computer it works on. So it's not very hard to include the wrapper into
that lib.
Bye, Michael
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