Re: Wanted: Debian Installer PowerPC porter(s)
hi - i am getting pretty worn out myself
putting Debian on a new world mac for first
time lately, a G4. i have thinking now it
it is a hassle.
i think the installer is over automated and
that increase bug problems. for instance.
a) the partitioning scheme and type i was
given were not much at all to my liking or
need. i was not given any option to correct
this only take it or leave it. i was not told
that journaling was being turned on.
since the partition sizes i was given were
not suitable i am force to resize later. my
backup drive here is firewire and i am hearing
it won't boot a backup. (the backup i made on
scsi with the old world machine wouldn't boot
either, but i was able to run parted by interrupting
the installer - although it no longer tells
you you can i guess you can ... )
________________
on more general :
i for one am no windows guy. I trained on unix
back in the old days and now i am 50% mac at least.
i like macs, and i like unix. i can't stand windows.
i really can't.
is this worth it. i have done some work with
Fink project/ macosx.2 jaguar. obviously it
it non-free. i don't like that but i need
to do some pre-production sorts of work.
by the way fink commander is compared to synaptic
much better !
?suggestions ??
--- Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 03:10:34AM +0200, Frans Pop
> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 29 March 2006 03:00, Sven Luther
> wrote:
> > > altough seeing as it is a tedious process with
> little respect from the
> > > d-i team ...
> >
> > I have on purpose avoided anything like this in my
> mail and will not go
> > into any past issues here. I only hope that anyone
> considering helping
> > out with d-i will make their own judgement based
> on their own experiences
> > instead of taking Sven's word for this.
> >
> > And yes, the Debian Installer team is very
> grateful to Sven as well for
> > the hard work he has done for the installer and
> related packages like
> > parted over the past years.
>
> It would have been nice to remember that previously
> though, since well saying
> that after basically kicking someone out, well, it
> does sound more like giving
> oneself good concience than any kind of
> gratefullness.
>
> Friendly,
>
> Sven Luther
>
>
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