Re: Bug in installation of Debian 2.1 on Atari

[Roman Hodek <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>]

> I was going to rebuild the Amiga and Mac boot floppies anyway so
> adding the Atari to that won't be too much work.

Ah, that's fine!

> So if you have a patch please throw it my way :-)

I've checked it in into the CVS, but I guess that doesn't help you.
Here's a normal patch:

--- boot-floppies/utilities/libfdisk/partbl_atari.c	1998/02/24 10:32:59	1.3
+++ boot-floppies/utilities/libfdisk/partbl_atari.c	1999/05/17 13:16:18	1.4
@@ -68,7 +68,9 @@
     rs = (struct rootsector *) data;
     if (!(fdisk_device = fdisk_find_disk( device )))
 	return 0;
-    hd_size = fdisk_device->size;
+	/* fdisk_device->size is in kByte, but we need it in sectors for
+	 * comparisons. */
+    hd_size = 2*fdisk_device->size;
 
     if (!VALID_PARTITION( &rs->part[0], hd_size ) &&
 	!VALID_PARTITION( &rs->part[1], hd_size ) &&

Roman