Re: Pre-DEBIAN 8.0 install images for ALPHA architecture (debian-ports unstable release)
On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 04:25:23PM +0200, Gianluca Bonetti wrote:
> After much delay I found 3 disks to put in my DS20e and install Debian Pre-8.0
> Installer runs smooth, partitioning is easy, and it also creates aboot
> and boot partitions.
Nice to hear.
> About partitioning, installer partman-lvm gives error when creating volume.
> Creating volumes on command line works fine.
> On the debug console:
> partman-lvm: Error during parsing of command line.
> partman-lvm: lvcreate: unrecognized option '--wipesignatures'
Hopefully Helge Deller sees that -- he worked on the alpha installer.
You may be the first to try using LVM on alpha.
> Another thing to note, there is no xfs support in kernel, so I had to
> choose ext4 but xfs is my preferred.
Is that because the module is not built, or because the module does
not load because of relocation errors?
> Now that I have a fully working 8.0 system, I would like to help as I could.
> Let me know or ask whatever could be done.
Fixing the build failure of cmake would be really helpful! See
my other message to the debian-alpha emai list just posted.
Cheers
Michael.
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