Re: boot-floppies - mac-fdisk vs. parted
mac-fdisk is a steaming pile of crap.
parted is much much better
I think we should replace mac-fdisk in base with parted.
Peter
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 04:01:08PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 04:50:33PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > Then we would probably need arch specific default partitioning strings.
> >
> > Do all arches support fdisk? Then we could simply have different schemes
> > depending on arch.
>
> no, macs must use mac-fdisk, m68K uses pmac-fdisk iirc (though it may
> be the same as mac-fdisk, a 68K person would have to comment).
> powerpcs using dos partition tables use fdisk of course. sparc uses
> it as well.
>
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> Ethan Benson
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