Bug#236973: Successful but troubled installation on mips (Indy R4k)

[Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>]

On  8.III.2004 22:38 at Nicholas Breen wrote:
> 
> The partitioning tool proved troublesome.
>  - Default partition table selection should be 'dvh'.

I think in partman it is 'dvh'.

>  - When editing an individual partition, the name option doesn't seem
>    to do anything, and any name entered in that screen does not appear
>    when you continue. 

I can reproduce this on i386 with dvh partition table.  However parted
gives the reason of this, it says "Error: Only logical partitions
(boot files) have a name.".  I don't know why partman doesn't say the
same, probably the debconf priority of the message is too low.

Is it possible to use parted to create partition table on SGI?  If
yes, then it must be possible to use partman.  Otherwise partman
should not be used on SGI.  I don't know how to setup properly dvh
partition tably using parted.  I tried fdisk, but it exits with
"Floating point exception".


Anton Zinoviev