Re: Shrinking HFS+ causes fatal out of memory

[Sven Luther]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:54:03PM +0200, K.G. wrote:
> 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.

Well, then :

  rebuild the package with this option.

  get the d-i stuff from svn

  add the rebuilt packages to localudebs

  add libparted .udeb to pkg-lists/(netboot|cdrom|hd-media)/local

  rebuild the initrd.

  use it with th rest of d-i, preferably netboot or hd-media.

Friendly,

Sven Luther