Re: what the hell is ``bondi blue?''
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 05:40:00PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> i might be persuaded to write some of the yaboot/bootstrap stuff but
> it woudl be good to know exactly what your planning for dbootstrap on
> those? are you going to make any attempts to activate the `make disk
> bootable' on newworlds? or is it up to the user?
Not for potato.
> also i know someone who was looking at adding support to mac-fdisk to
> change a partitions type, useful for those who followed LinuxPPC's
> bogus advice and failed to make the bootstrap partition an
> Apple_Bootstrap and now have MacOS ruining the ybin setup. i may also
> convince him to add a new command to create bootstrap partitions more
> directly. (instead of manually with the `C' command) i don't know if
> he will finish this in time for debian or not (if he really does want
> to work on mac-fdisk this much)
Also - probably too late for potato.
Basically, I put the tools on there, people can use them. I'm
rewriting most of the whole process for woody. Hopefully, we'll have
util-linux support Mac partition tables directly.
Dan
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