Re: [tsec-gf] Re: needs to support > 512 byte block sizes for s390
Hi,
Martin Michlmayr:
> * Frank Kirschner <kirschner@trustsec.de> [2004-05-13 14:50]:
> > The partitioner wants to partition a extended partition. That is not
> > possible on s/390
>
> Do you mean a logical partition?
the debian installer suggests 2 partitions:
part1: /
part5: swap (in an extended partition)
On s390, there are only 4 primary partitons available and no extended.
So a dos-compatible partition-layout will not work on s390.
> > When I partition it from hand, the partitioner is not able to write the
> > partitiontable to disk.
>
> Do you know why?
No. Debugging the debian-installier is not so easy ;)
> > At least now the partitioner can read the disk and does not complain
> > about wrong blocksizes and reports the correct disk-layout.
>
> Good.
Yes. This is a huge step from earlier versions :)
> > I cannot test it further right now, because the d-i SVN is not available.
>
> It should be back now... sorry, it has some problems sometimes.
The anonymous access still is broken, but I am able to checkout the SVN
with my alioth account now.
Ciao
Frank Kirschner
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