Re: new parted version available for testing ... (fwd)

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 01:26:48PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > Now, what is the situation of the boot loader on amiga/m68k and
> > > amiga/apus ? Do you have a lilo-like thingy, or still the ami/apusboot
> > > program we used back then ? If the later is the case, it should be
> > > possible to cross compile it, and then to make a debian package with it,
> > > installing it in the affs formatted /boot partition or a affs
> > > /boot/amiboot or something such.
> > 
> > Amiboot and Amiga-Lilo are part of m68kboot, which is available from
> > cvs.linux-m68k.org.
> 
> So there is Amiga-lilo that you can install from linux ? If so, no need

Yes.

> to do it differently. This is not true for apus though, right ?

APUS support is experimental and needs a kernel patch, IIRC. Roman can tell you
more about it.

> > Recently Roman Zippel made some changes (e.g. preliminary APUS support) to
> > Amiga-Lilo: http://www.xs4all.nl/~zippel/amiga-lilo-2.3.tar.gz
> > 
> > To cross-compile Amiboot, you need to package ADE (Amiga Development
> > Environment) first.
> 
> Yes, altough i guess you could build it on amigaos, and then just use it
> for installing later on.

I guess the Debian autobuilders won't like that ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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