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Re: Thoughts on the state of the boot-floppies



Bruce Sass <bsass@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> writes:

> On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Erik Andersen wrote:
> 
> > * We include both cfdisk (50k) and fdisk (85k).  Why not pick just one,
> >     or use sfdisk (included in busybox -- costs 34k).
> 
> Unless cfdisk has changed...
> Fdisk can partition the HD at the finest resolution the hardware allows,
> cfdisk can not.

I agree.  We should stick with fdisk and cfdisk for i386.  Newbies
default to cfdisk, which works quite well.

Disk druid is out of the question -- from what I've heard, it sucks.
Adapting it to our stuff at this point isn't likely to be feasible
anyway.

-- 
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>


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