Re: 192 byte script to partition and format harddrive
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> > I used it to give the installer the option of skipping all the
> > parititoning/formatting prompts. See
> > http://openrock.net/tb/patches/boot-floppies* for the patches I applied to
> > the boot-floppies.
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > echo -e "1\nd\n2\nd\n3\nd\n4\nd\nn\np\n1\n\n+20M\na\n1\nn\np\n2\n\n+200M\nt\n2\n82\nn\np\n3\n\n\nw\n"
> > | fdisk /dev/hda >/dev/null
>
> I would prefer usage of sfdisk for something like this *very* *much*.
> fdisk is AFAIK not thought to run non-interactive, and a little change in
> it may brake this.
sfdisk is not included on the boot system. fdisk has been the same for >5
years.
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