Martin Michlmayr wrote: > The installation went pretty smoothly. cfdisk was started, I > partitioned the disks. I noticed ext3 was not available and pointed > this out to Vince; he added it to the initrd... I then chose to use > ext3 for the root partition, but this turned out to be a bad choice > because the firmware cannot boot from it. I had to re-install on an > ext2 partition. Can d-i warn about such things? Are there hooks for > this? Also, should ARM switch to partman? Totally doable if you switch to partman. Add a partman-arm or something that drops in a finish.d script, that does the check. See similar check in partman-xfs. > The base system was installed without any problems. Well, one minor, > cosmetic problem. The machine is kinda slow, and therefore it would > be nice if the progress bar would be more fine grained. Yeah, tell it to aj. :-/ > For the Netwinder there is a package called nwutil to change some > hardware settings. This should be installed after the base. > According to Joey, base-installer has some hooks to install sub-arch > specific packages. It might be better to say that base-config needs some hooks. > After the install, /etc/fstab was empty. I don't know why, though. > I also got this message: > WARNING: Your /etc/fstab does not contain the fsck passno field. I will > kludge around things for you, but you should fix your /etc/fstab file as > soon as you can. > But I suppose this is because my /etc/fstab was empty. (empty: there was a > heading saying /etc/fstab was unconfigured.) Hmm, sounds like a failure to call partconf-mkfstab, though the current version of partconf should do so. -- see shy jo
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