Re: [tsec-gf] Re: will s390 have a working installer for sarge?
Hi,
Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader:
> * Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> [2004-04-11 13:01]:
> > As far as I know, the current stats of s390 with the debian
> > installer is that we cannot use d-i's standard partition
> > formatter/mounter because it is based on parted, which assumes a
> > different disk sector size than that used on s390. AFAIK, noone is
> > working on either fixing this, or comeing up with a woraround. If
> > it's not fixed, we will not be able to ship s390 with beta 4 of the
> > debian installer and that is a short step from not shipping s390
> > with sarge.
>
> Bastian Blank said that parted cannot be used because the assumption
> of 512 byte sectors is hardcoded all over the place. Instead, he
> suggested fixing partconf so it can work without knowing about
> disklabels. I asked trustsec if they can work on this, but I'm not
> sure what the status is.
I have made a patch, that does exactly that.
For now, the patch uses /proc/partitions only for dasd's. Bastian
suggested to rewrite partconf, that it uses /proc/partitions on all
platforms.
With the patched partconf I was able to install a s390 system. Only
problem was a missing dependency in debootstrap, which should be fixed
now. I will try a new install again today.
Ciao
Frank Kirschner
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