Re: debian-installer beta-4 for ppc
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 05:35:21PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 11:23:42AM -0400, Kevin C. Baird wrote:
> > The ~1Mb boot partition for multi-booting needs to be HFS, not
> > Apple_Bootstrap, as might seem logical.
>
> It has to be both. Apple_Bootstrap is the partition type and HFS the
> filesystem. yaboot-installer should take care of creating a HFS
> Filesystem on your Apple_Bootstrap partition.
>
> > The debian-installer does not offer formatting in HFS (at least my
> > version didn't).
>
> Can you please tell us, what exact error it gave you and where (in which
> stage of the installation) you saw this error.
>
> > So I had to use a different distribution's install CD to format in HFS,
> > reboot with the Debian install CD, and proceed from there.
>
> I never had to do that. If this is still present in the latest daily
> build, it's definitely a bug.
There was a bug in partman-newworld triggered by a change in
partman-target. I fixed it a day or two ago, so it should be trickling
into CD builds now.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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