Re: amiga-fdisk 0.4 and debian/potato boot floppies.
- To: Roman Hodek <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
- Cc: stepan@elvis.informatik.uni-freiburg.de, debian-68k@lists.debian.org, debian-boot@lists.debian.org, debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org, stepan@linux.de, Frank.Neumann@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de
- Subject: Re: amiga-fdisk 0.4 and debian/potato boot floppies.
- From: Sven LUTHER <luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 14:17:49 +0100
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- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 200001261110.MAA23226@faui22c.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>; from Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de on Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 12:10:14PM +0100
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On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 12:10:14PM +0100, Roman Hodek wrote:
>
> > Isn't fdisk/amiga only used to get the partition data of the disks?
>
> This was done in the past, but now dbootstrap contains a libfdisk for
> this purpose.
>
> The amiga-fdisk is for the user to repartition his disk if needed.
So the normal installation process on amiga (both m68k and apus) should be :
* use an amigaos tool, or reuse the old partitioning.
* if that does not work, use amiga-fdisk to repartition. amiga-fdisk should
be called by the "Partition the harddisk" menu option, or also directly on
a shell as amiga-fdisk or fdisk on amiga systems.
* for the "View the partition table" menu option, libfdisk amiga partitioning
support is used.
Is this correct ?
In case it is, are you aware that amiga-fdisk 0.04 needs libncurses and
libreadline ? a fix is on the way to produce a libreadline free amiga-fdisk
package for the boot floppies.
Friendly,
Sven LUTHER
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