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Re: Sparc d-i status



On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 08:21:18AM -0800, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 04:22:34PM +0100, Thomas Poindessous wrote:
> 
> > > I also remember (was it Thomas?  Blars? hmmm...) mentioning that the
> > > fdisk udeb wasn't getting loaded for some reason.  I'm hoping that the
> > > whole partman thing will make this silently go away before we get there.
> > 
> > in fact, there is no fdisk-udeb for sparc (bug #228444 ), and there is
> > no support for sparc in partitioner ( bug #228518).
> 
> Lovely!  I've applied the patch in 228518 to CVS and marked it pending. 
> (It obviously still needs fdisk-udeb).
> 
> Hmm...  Why don't we just use parted for now, until a better solution
> comes around?  It's in the archive, and AFAICT supports Sparc.  (ia64
> uses it right now, too)

I know it supports sparc. I worked a long time ago to get the sun
partition support into that.

> > we also need a silo-installer
> 
> Right.  Any takers? =)

Obviously, that's a "me" :)

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