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Re: bug#16134: libparted Atari partition table support



Am 16.12.2013 19:18, schrieb Phillip Susi:
> Would you be able to write a test case so make check verifies it is
> working?
> 

If i can help in any way, please explain what to do.
(I am the one with the Falcon 060).

> On 12/13/2013 5:54 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> 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
> 
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