Re: Problems with SILO (Sparc slink)
John Chapman <john@hannes.ndip.eskimo.net>:
> > The thing is, I remember it being there (on the help). Cause I wouldn't have
> > known which one to use otherwise... So, I'd like to find out why it doesn't
> > show on yours.
>
> It's one of those perverse realities, I'm afraid. If your disk has
> already been formatted with DOS-style partitions, the "s" option does not
> appear. It is, however, present, even though invisible; just type an "s"
> at the prompt, and you should see a Sun disklabel screen.
This automatic hiding of the option was presumably intended as a
convenience. Unfortunately, judging by the discussions in
debian-sparc, it must have caused hundreds of hours of people's time
to be wasted ...
Edmund
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