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Re: [d-i] debconf, partitioning widget?



On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:43:00AM -0500, Eric Gillespie wrote:
> Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
> 
> > I'm expecting some working installation systems (PGI, d-i, whatever)
> > within a couple of months... (i386 only, and other limitations, sure,
> > but working nevertheless)
> 
> PGI works now.  As for parted's stability, we have been using it since
> Progeny Debian, and have never had stability or reliability problems.
> The only problem we did have was the old release we shipped with
> Progeny Debian was very picky about partition tables.  It could not read
> tables created by Windows ME and some tables even from other GNU/Linux
> installers.  These problems have since been addressed, and we have had
> zero problems with parted in PGI.

Umm, I know Jimmy Kaplowski filed a bug which we worked around, and I've
seen some problems on powerpc. Zero is a bit less than true.

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