Re: [PowerMac] pdisk for Debian?
On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 03:58:53AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
>
> > does it really matter? this software is obviously unmaintained
> > upstream. I would say just make it available elsewhere, say
> > linuxppc.org if linuxppc.com ever makes good on thier word and gives
> > that site to the Linux community in general.
>
> They are, really they are. :)
>
> > what would be really nice is if someone would make some improvments on
> > this utility, its quite buggy and lacks some useful aspects such as
> > being able to change an existing partition's type... (don't ask im not
> > a programmer ;-))
>
> What for? Personally, I think it would be more useful to combine
> traditional fdisk, amiga-fdisk and pdisk into one program (The HFS
> specifics could be grabbed from perldisk. iirc brian went and rewrote
> parts that he needed to).
Strange, was thinking this same thing this morning while doing lots of
partitionning.
but i lack time for doing such a thing alone right now, but i could contribute
the amiga-fdisk part if someone else is doing the rest of it.
Friendly,
Sven LUTHER
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