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From: Sean Sullivan <sean@××××××××××.org>
To: Nathaniel McCallum <npmccallum@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-ppc-dev@l.g.o, gentoo-sparc@l.g.o, gentoo-alpha@l.g.o, gentoo-mips@l.g.o, gentoo-amd64@l.g.o, gentoo-hppa@l.g.o, gentoo-ia64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-dev] Gentoo Installer partitioning arch support
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 01:32:58
Message-Id: 40887F9C.9000808@sfsullivan.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-ppc-dev] Gentoo Installer partitioning arch support by Nathaniel McCallum
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3 >The plan was to originally use parted (which I still prefer). I made an
4 >ebuild for redhat's parted python bindings (in bugzilla), but it isn't
5 >in portage yet (needs a patch and version bump on parted). HOWEVER, I
6 >don't believe parted supports all arches. Specifically, I believe
7 >parted has "minors" hard coded as type int, which doesn't work on one
8 >arch (I believe alpha) as it uses letter based minors. I could be wrong
9 >though... But to your knowledge parted DOES work on ppc? Anyone else?
10 >Does parted work on your arch? Thanks!
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12 >Nathaniel
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16 parted-1.6.6 built clean and seems to perform well on my iBook.
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18 Sean Sullivan
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Re: [gentoo-ppc-dev] Gentoo Installer partitioning arch support Nathaniel McCallum <npmccallum@g.o>