Hi! While chatting with someone who was trying to install Linux onto his ATARI Falcon 060, we stumbled into the task getting the hard disk partitioned for the ATARI Falcon to be used. Since I already successfully created an Amiga partition table with the help of gparted and libparted, I thought it would be as easy as that for ATARI partitions, too. Unfortunately, libparted currently doesn't support ATARI partition tables. However, there is a long-standing bug report open which contains the necessary patches for libparted to support that [1]. Since we're in the process of reviving the m68k port of Debian, I guess we should also put efforts into getting this patch finally to upstream so people can prepare their ATARI hard disks on their Linux PCs before using them in the ATARI or change partitions once Linux is running on their ATARIs. Adrian > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=239816 -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
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