Re: d-i ia64 install report
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 01:10:53PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Richard Hirst wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 06:46:24PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > Richard Hirst wrote:
> > > > parted seems to be broken. It doesn't seem able to create filesystems
> > > > anymore. Havn't looked in to this yet, but "mkpartfs pri ext2 1000
> > > > 2000" just returns to the prompt without apparently doing anything.
> > > > Need to look in to this a bit more and file bug.
> > >
> > > I've been hearing murmerings about parted for a few days, is this a
> > > more widespread problem? There was a new version uploaded recently.
> >
> > Serious bug filed on parted 1.6.6-2; the new amiga fs support breaks all
> > filesystem creation.
>
> Is this specific to ia64, or is it also breaking i386?
I see no reason why it would be ia64 specific. I assume it is no longer
possible to create filesystems with parted on any arch. d-i will of
course create filesystems for you, for ext[23], so the fact that parted
can't currently create an fs isn't fatal for i386. It is fatal for ia64
because we rely on parted to create the FAT boot partition filesystem.
parted can still create partitions, it just can't create filesystems
within those partitions. mkpart works, mkpartfs and mkfs don't.
Richard
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