libfdisk with sgilabelsupport

[heinold@physik.tu-cottbus.de (H.Heinold)]

Hi,

I am trying to get "boot-floppies" to work for the mips(mostly SGI).
The goal is to get the debian installtion working on mips/el.
As far as I know there are no floppies for such computers,
but we can link the root.bin with kernel and booting the machines
via tftp.

I started with the cvs bootfloppies for potato from the weekend.
Problems that I solved.

-the only stable glibc for mips/el is 2.0.6, but I got busybox 
compiled with some hacking

-build the root.bin but without dboostrap and busybox

Problems I not solved.

-get dboostrap compiled 
problem is that libfdisk has no support
for the sgidislabel. I started to included it, but I am not
a good coder. I used the sundisklabel as example and the sourcecode from
fdis, included the spec-variables, do the checksum and stucked.
As I know libfdisk is to get the partions from the disk.

I hope some can helpme or include the last routines. My work can
be retriev at 
http://www.physik.tu-cottbus.de/users/heinold/libfdisknew.tar.bz2



Henning Heinold