On Thu, 23 May 2002, Frederick Bruckman wrote:

> On Thu, 23 May 2002, Bernd Sieker wrote:
> 
> > why do the install docs for 1.5.2 and 1.5.3_RC1 still refer to the Mac
> > OS based installer only, although there is a sysinst-based ramdisk
> > installation kernel available, which is probably easier to use, more
> > consistent with other ports, and definitely a lot faster than the Mac
> > OS based installer.
> 
> It is a lot faster, but the partition editor is broken and dangerous.
> I just found that if you use "part of the disk", it doesn't even show
> you HFS partitions (for "safety"), but then it goes ahead and
> overwrites them anyway! It would be safe for upgrades (no partition
> changes), except that the a.out to ELF transition goop is missing for
> mac68k. Also, no DHCP on mac68k.

Is there a reason it doesn't just use pdisk for partition editing?  I've
used it on NetBSD-mac68k a few times....  (With a few dozen lines of
patches. ;-)


David

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