Re: amiga-fdisk 0.4 and debian/potato boot floppies.
> > > harddisk option of the menu tries to call cfdisk, which don't support amiga
> > > partitions, at least on powerpc/apus.
> >
> > Which goes to prove that boot-floppies 2.2.4 is utterly broken. 2.1.9
> > wasn't broken (on m68k, please look at the m68k Amiga code in 2.2.4, it
> > should still call amiga-fdisk).
>
> Ok will do, but i suppose it may work for m68k, but be broken for
> powerpc/apus.
Maybe.
> the view partition works ok for me, as well as calling fdisk by hand (calls
> amiga-fdisk, which i will build a includeable version soon).
Fine.
> Are you aware of the problems regarding amiga-fdisk 0.04 and boot floppies ?
Me? Why should I care? I've got nothing to do with boot-floppies this
time.
> Ok, but you said that amiga-fdisk should be used only in emergencies, so what
> is the normal way of partitioning ? doing it under amigaos ?
If I recall Franky's install guide right, he suggested to use the AmigaOS
partition editor.
Michael
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