On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 03:02:27PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > I tested the daily-build from > http://people.debian.org/~cjwatson/d-i/powerpc-miboot/2006-06-21/powerpc/floppy/ > on an oldworld powermac 4400 with lowmen (48mb IIRC) and noticed some > problems > and a failed installation.
http://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/powerpc-miboot/ now. > Next problem was the auto-partioning, in Partition disks: it defaults to > floppy :( This should be fixed by the sorting change in partman-base 88: partman-base (88) unstable; urgency=low * Sort /dev/hd* and /dev/sd* to the top of the list of devices to open, along with /dev/ide/* and /dev/scsi/*. * definitions.sh (humandev): Handle /dev/loop* as well as /dev/loop/*. [ Updated translations ] * Arabic (ar.po) by Ossama M. Khayat * Czech (cs.po) by Miroslav Kure * Macedonian (mk.po) by Georgi Stanojevski -- Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:57:44 +0100 > Then the installation runs without problems until quik-installer, this > ends with an error because /boot is on a seperate partition (though quik > supports it, the error-msg (typed not copied) is: "the quik bootloader > requires /boot to be on the same partition as /" There's a TODO note about this in quik-installer. Could you try editing /var/lib/dpkg/info/quik-installer.postinst before quik-installer runs and removing this if block to see if everything then runs smoothly? if [ "$boot_devfs" != "$root_devfs" ]; then # TODO: Is this still required, now that we put kernel symlinks in # /boot? die quik-installer/boot_not_on_root '/boot not on /' fi -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]