Re: Problems with SILO (Sparc slink)
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
> > What exactly do I need to put a Sun disk label on my disk? Solaris?? I
> > hope not :)
>
> You can do it with fdisk. It's in the manual:
>
> http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/sparc/ch-init-config.en.html#s-dbootstrap-partition
>
> (Does dbootstrap in potato make this any more foolproof?)
Hmm the joke is on me I guess. Just because I wanted fdisk to actually
/print/ `s' in the help before trying it out, I never made it to that
point. Sure someone else mentioned `s' before but it did not occurr to me
that one needs a /hidden feature/ to get things rolling.
I can't tell about dbootstrap in potato but the one in slink happily
initialized the swap partition and the existing filesystem without even
/hinting/ at problems. Ok, ok, I missed the bit in the docs, I confess.
It might be that I even read them but forgot about them as (nearly)
everything worked out.
Thanks anyway - but if fdisk in potato still does not mention `s' in its
help I will file a bug against it.
Cheers
Detlev
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