Re: inital install & fdisk

[Eric Delaunay <delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr>]

Stephen Zander wrote:
> eichin@kitten.gen.ma.us (Mark W. Eichin) writes:
> 
> > Actually, though, the kernel will *mount* disks that have x86-linux
> > style partition tables -- sparc-fdisk will core dump on them, though.
> 
> All vaery well & good (& I already knew about Sun's disk tables). The
> question remains however: what do I use for an fdisk? format(8) from
> Solaris??

There is an old fdisk binary at
ftp://lix.polytechnique.fr/pub/Linux/debian/sparc/bo/disks-sparc/fdisk

It was based on util-linux 2.5 with RH patches.
There is no fdisk for sparc in the current util-linux release (2.7.*).
Neither in the upstream sources nor the RedHat one.
The RedHat team has released a sparc-fdisk package based on fdisk from
util-linux 2.5 instead.
I think we can follow the same rules.

Bye.

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