Re: Request for review of partman-newworld

2004-04-18 Thread Colin Watson
[There's no need to send me a private copy of list mail, by the way. I read debian-boot.] On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 10:13:28PM +0200, Pip Oomen wrote: > Ok, that explains it. And no, then I don't need to put in onto the > initrd image, but then I will have to figure out how to make anna pull > in

Re: Request for review of partman-newworld

2004-04-18 Thread Pip Oomen
Ok, that explains it. And no, then I don't need to put in onto the initrd image, but then I will have to figure out how to make anna pull in packages from a local archive, w/o having a full mirror available on my local site. Guess I'll have to build a partial archive with all necessary udebs an

Re: Request for review of partman-newworld

2004-04-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 09:34:35PM +0200, Pip Oomen wrote: > I am willing to give this a go in the coming week. How do I pull in the > partman-newworld package into the netboot initrd image? Just add it to > the list and all set? Or is there something else to take care of to make > it do its mag

Re: Request for review of partman-newworld

2004-04-18 Thread Pip Oomen
I am willing to give this a go in the coming week. How do I pull in the partman-newworld package into the netboot initrd image? Just add it to the list and all set? Or is there something else to take care of to make it do its magic? I am now building all udebs (debian-installer/packages) and re

Re: Request for review of partman-newworld

2004-04-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 09:13:07PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On 8.IV.2004 at 03:37 Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > I will look at partman-newworld after a few days. > > I have commited the changes. Notice however that the new > partman-newworld can work properly only with the new partman package

Re: Request for review of partman-newworld

2004-04-10 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On 8.IV.2004 at 03:37 Anton Zinoviev wrote: > I will look at partman-newworld after a few days. I have commited the changes. Notice however that the new partman-newworld can work properly only with the new partman packages and they are not uploaded yet. Looking at yaboot-installer I observed t

Re: Request for review of partman-newworld

2004-04-08 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 03:37:49AM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > On 7.IV.2004 Colin Watson wrote: > > This was my first exposure to partman's internals, so I'd appreciate it > > if a partman expert (Anton?) could look it over for any glaring errors. > > It is not dangerous, but it won/t work prop

Re: Request for review of partman-newworld

2004-04-07 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On 7.IV.2004 Colin Watson wrote: > > This was my first exposure to partman's internals, so I'd appreciate it > if a partman expert (Anton?) could look it over for any glaring errors. It is not dangerous, but it won/t work properly. Partman-palo (and partman-lvm) contained some hacks that are not

Re: Fw: Request for review of partman-newworld

2004-04-07 Thread Rick Thomas
Frans Pop wrote: > > Hello Rick, > > Are you still planning to work on the manual for Macs? > If so, could you take a look at the text below, Yes I am. I got side-tracked for a while in testing d-i on old-world Macs. Thanks for the words. I'll take a look at it this weekend. Enjoy! Rick

Fw: Request for review of partman-newworld

2004-04-07 Thread Frans Pop
Hello Rick, Are you still planning to work on the manual for Macs? If so, could you take a look at the text below, it looks like a very useful text to be included in the Mac-versions of the manual. I think the text needs a little bit of polish (especially the use of 'namely' in the last sentenc

Re: Request for review of partman-newworld

2004-04-07 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 12:26, Colin Watson wrote: > This seems like a good idea; but where? I don't think it's a good > idea to force an extra note unconditionally, and I can't see any > hooks for displaying help text. Well, imho, the technical knowledge level of the average mac user is far b

Re: Request for review of partman-newworld

2004-04-07 Thread Colin Watson
[No need to send me a private copy, thanks; I read debian-boot.] On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 12:11:27PM +0300, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > On Wednesday 07 April 2004 03:32, Colin Watson wrote: > > I've checked in partman-newworld, which wraps up the method for > > creating the special Apple_Boots

Re: Request for review of partman-newworld

2004-04-07 Thread Konstantinos Margaritis
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 03:32, Colin Watson wrote: > I've checked in partman-newworld, which wraps up the method for > creating the special Apple_Bootstrap partition you need to boot > newworld PowerMac systems. I've tested it somewhat, although not > exactly with a straight-through install or a

Request for review of partman-newworld

2004-04-06 Thread Colin Watson
I've checked in partman-newworld, which wraps up the method for creating the special Apple_Bootstrap partition you need to boot newworld PowerMac systems. I've tested it somewhat, although not exactly with a straight-through install or all error cases because I'm not in a position to trash my curre