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Re: Open Firmware - what can I do with it?



On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 03:34:30AM +0100, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
> 
> I know a little more of my ibook now, but I'm still not able to delete
> the partition table of my harddisk with Open Firmware commands.

why on earth do you want to do this?  you do partitioning in debian's
mac-fdisk not OpenFirmawre.

> Or isn't it possible to manipulate data on harddisks from within Open
> Firmware? It should be, as I saw read and write as "words" for my
> harddisk device and even "initdevice", but I couldn't find documentation
> on how to use them.

its possible, but not something you want to do, you will almost
certainly end up destroying everything.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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