Re: Fix problem report, in progress on hard disk install problems
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 01:56:36PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 22:03, Chris Tillman wrote:
> > I started in on getting the hard disk installation to work again.
>
> I wonder when it broke?
Looks like there were some nasty surprises in the changes jaqque had
so carefully prepared. There's been so little activity lately, no
one's noticed.
> Anyways, would you mind postponing these changes from being applied to
> CVS until after 3.0.19 is released? There are a lot of show-stoppers in
> 3.0.18, such as the debootstrap problems, lilo on i386, the fact that
> mac-fdisk is b0rked on the powerpc disks.
>
> Any changes to choose_medium.c will require a lot of testing; that code
> is a nasty, quivering logical mess. (Your changes do look sane though
> at first glance).
Sure, just warn people they can't install from instant harddisk or
mounted partitions.
I do see what you mean about the code; I've just about got these
things fixed though. The tentacles do reach around a bit, so if the
rest of the release is stable, it's probably best to hold off as you
say.
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