Re: debian 2.3
On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 08:41:58PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> keep in mind that reiserfs is totally broken on big endian
> archetectures (m68k, sparc, powerpc) right now. there is work being
> done and its making progress but none of it is merged upstream yet.
Yeah, hopefully it's on par by the time we release. Right now, it's best to put the first foot forward and hope for the best. In a worst case situation, we can just back out of using reiserfs on big endian arches.
> also sparc and powerpc bootloaders (silo, quik, and yaboot) don't grok
> reiserfs, but that wouldn't be a problem so long as reiserfs root was
> not allowed.
Again, it's not such a thing of disallowing as it is more important to discourage. Debian's installer has traditionally been all about flexibility.
> > I would really like to see how we can work in parted. I don't know
> > that that would fit though.
>
> parted would certainly be great for powerpc, the current partitioner
> (mac-fdisk) is a stinking pile of crap.
>
> unfortunatly parted's command line interface leaves some things to be
> desired (+500M trick to make a 500M partition like fdisk can).
I don't know about parted, but almost anything has got to be better than mac-fdisk ;)
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