On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 04:06:34PM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > BTW: Out of interest: What is the history of the renaming of "fdisk" to > > > "ddisk" on powerpc? > > > > I've no idea. I'd never heard of this, in fact. I bet it stands for > > DOS fDISK; it reads DOS partition tables and not Apple ones, and > > mac-fdisk supplies the 'fdisk' binary. > > The fdisk binary provided by mac-fdisk is yet another DOS partition table > fdisk (from the days when fdisk wasn't endian clean I believe). The Apple > partition table editor has always been mac-fdisk. huh? mac-fdisk doesn't ship the fdisk binary: eb@socrates ~$ dpkg -L mac-fdisk | grep fdisk /sbin/mac-fdisk /usr/share/man/man8/mac-fdisk.8.gz /usr/share/doc/mac-fdisk /usr/share/doc/mac-fdisk/README.Debian /usr/share/doc/mac-fdisk/copyright /usr/share/doc/mac-fdisk/changelog.gz /usr/share/doc/mac-fdisk/README.gz /usr/share/doc/mac-fdisk/changelog.Debian.gz eb@socrates ~$ ls -l /sbin/fdisk lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 15 2000 /sbin/fdisk -> mac-fdisk > I'd be happy to drop the DOS fdisk part from mac-fdisk BTW. util-linux > providing a working fdisk seems the more logical way to solve this > (though using the fdisk name might confuse the hell out of newbies that > read some intel specific documentation). Any objections? sure, its already that way ;-) your postinst is whats creating that symlink, boot-floppies also does it as part of base configuration iirc. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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