Re: Some details on the bootloader installation for PowerMacs

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hello!

On 2/5/21 9:21 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> The next step will be adding a hfsprogs-udeb package which allows the hfsprogs
> package to be used directly by debian-installer. Every filesystem supported
> by debian-installer, i.e. that can be chosen to format a partition during installation,
> has such a udeb package.

I have a preliminary hfsprogs-udeb package now:

glaubitz@perotto:~/test$ dpkg-deb -c hfsprogs-udeb_540.1.linux3-5_powerpc.udeb
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2021-02-06 09:34 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2021-02-06 09:34 ./sbin/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root    339940 2021-02-06 09:34 ./sbin/fsck.hfs
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     69572 2021-02-06 09:34 ./sbin/mkfs.hfs
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2021-02-06 09:34 ./usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2021-02-06 09:34 ./usr/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2021-02-06 09:34 ./usr/share/misc/
-rw-r--r-- root/root     22233 2021-02-06 09:34 ./usr/share/misc/hfsbootdata
lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2021-02-06 09:34 ./sbin/fsck.hfsplus -> fsck.hfs
lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2021-02-06 09:34 ./sbin/mkfs.hfsplus -> mkfs.hfs
glaubitz@perotto:~/test$

I will work on partman-hfs next.

Adrian

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