Ubuntu
partman-prep package

  1. Bug #1533587
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 1533587

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bugproxy (bugproxy) wrote : Comment bridged from LTC Bugzilla

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-01-20 00:51 EDT-------
Externalizing tester's comment :

(In reply to comment #8)
> In the list of possible partitions, above " Ext4 journaling file system"
> there should have been "Use as PowerPC PReP...", but it doesn't appear to be
> in the documentation for the bug here, or it was scrolled out of view.
>
> I've run a quick test looking at the code for partman-prep in 14.04, and the
> option already was there, although I didn't go the fully manual route yet. I
> will go back and manually partition a new VM to check this.
>
> The code in partman-prep does indeed contain the right code to add the PReP
> option in filesystems, and does not appear to conditionalize it at all.

Prep is not listed when installing on Bare metal (net boot installation--> http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/dists/trusty-proposed/main/installer-ppc64el/current/images/wily-netboot/ubuntu-installer/ppc64el/ ) manually.
It lists prep while installing in on PowerVM and PowerKVM.