Re: Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:21:35PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
> "Sven" == Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
>
> Sven> No, lvm could be added to partman in no time, but Colin
> Sven> Watson voted against this, and rightly so, since he claimed
> Sven> that we should not use a quick hack, but come to a consensus
> Sven> on the way of doing this with both the d-i team and the
> Sven> lvm-config tools (also upstream probably), for future
> Sven> portability issue.
>
> Sven> Nobody did really find the time to push this, and thus there
> Sven> is no lvm support on powermac (altough there should be no
> Sven> problem on prep and ibm chrp hardware, and i have solution
> Sven> for pegasos too).
>
> Okay. I suppose this (powermac lvm for d-i) might not happen by the
> time Sarge releases. I'd be happy to take a look at it, but I might
> not have the skills and/or time....
No, the code is trivial (one small parted change, and one upload of parted to
move into sarge), what needs doing is discussing this with other distros which
run on powermac and lvm upstream.
> Does the Sarge ppc installation manual needs an update for the
> powermac exception then? Should I file a bug against the manual? I
> could probably write a patch for the manual (in English) if it was
> desired - the source for the manual is in svn on alioth, right?
As i understand manual modifications are too late anyway, but then it would be
easier to fix the issue.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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