On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 11:46:22PM -0500, Colin Walters wrote: > On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 14:50, Matt Kraai wrote: > > I am pleased to report that earlier today I was able to install > > Debian Woody on my iBook2 using the new-powermac flavor without > > any serious problems. However, I did find some minor issues > > that I'd like to fix. > > Did you make a separate /boot partition? I've gotten one report that > the code which tries to prevent you from making a /boot with an > incorrect filesystem type is itself incorrect. It would be great if you > could try beating on that part of the installer a bit; try making /boot > ext3, HFS (shouldn't work), etc.
I didn't make a separate /boot partition (though I did create
the required bootstrap one). It does look like the test in
verify_powerpc_mount is broken, though.
Here is the simple, hopefully correct version:
if ((!is_newworld
&& !is_fstype("/boot", "ext2"))
|| (is_newworld
&& !is_fstype("/boot", "ext2")
&& !is_fstype("/boot", "ext3")
&& !is_fstype("/boot", "xfs")
&& !is_fstype("/boot", "reiserfs")))
> > Which term is preferred, `host name' or `hostname'. The
> > boot-floppies use both on the same screen, and some consistency
> > would be nice. FOLDOC lists it as one word[1,2], but the
> > hostname manual page uses two. Any preference?
>
> I think you'll have people telling you both are correct. It's a lot
> like "filesystem" versus "file system". The former is very popular in
> common usage, but you'll usually only see the latter in formal works.
I went with `hostname', per FOLDOC (which uses `file system').
Matt
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