Re: Shrinking HFS+ causes fatal out of memory

[K.G.]

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:30:21 +0200 Sven Luther <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:21:05PM +0200, K.G. wrote:
> > Hi and thanks for your bug report,
> > 
> > On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:01:05 +0800 Nick Bower <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Thanks.  Unfortunately this is not so easy however - G5's don't have a 
> > > floppy drive (great huh).  Although I'll give it a shot trying to create 
> > > a boot cd or something.
> > 
> > I think there are some gentoo live cd for PPC with gcc.
> > If you succeed in building Parted yourself, I would like
> > you do it with the --enable-hfs-extract-fs
> 
> Just boot the debian installer (preferably sid daily builds) and go upto the
> partman step, go to partition 2, and launch parted.

Well the problem is that I really doubt Parted on the Debian Installer is build
with the --enable-hfs-extract-fs option (it should not be anyway...), so
that will only give him the lastest version (which is already quite good)
but not the capability to extract the file system structures.
I did a quick review of differncies between the HFS code of 1.6.22 and SVN,
and I don't think the version will make any difference in his case, but
maybe I'm wrong... If I'm not the file system structures would be very useful
to understand what's happening.

> Also, d-i can either be booted from cdrom or netbooted, so it is rather easy
> to use, i believe there is even a USB key boot method, altough i never tested
> it.
> 
> Friendly,
> 
> Sven Luther
> 

Cheers,
Guillaume