On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 12:35:23AM +0000, Ken Tyler wrote: > > > On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > Hello, ... > > > pb2 : i tried including amiga-fdisk, but it depends on libncurses4 and > > libreadlineg2, thus not being included. Will try to build a static > > amiga-fdisk, or a version that don't depend on these libraries. What do the > > m68k/amiga folk do about this ? > > The 'not debian' APUS folk use a static afdisk.
Yes, i guess so. I will try to build one. didn't have the source apckage this week end. my question was if they use the debian package (and i have to build the amiga-fdisk package staticly, or if they use a special package for the boot floppies. > > pb3 : When i call partition the harddisk, cfdisk is called, and not > > amiga-fdisk, like it should be. cfdisk don't know anything about amiga > > partitioned harddisks. There is a minor problem also on > > scripts/rootdisk/fdisk-powerpc which becomes /sbin/fdisk, but even fixing > > this > > don't seem to influence the "partition the harddisk" menu option. Strange > > since a manual call to fdisk finds the correct amiga-fdisk (or don't find > > it). > > There is something i don't understand here, what is libfdisk for in the > > busybox, i can read the partition correctly (with the menu option view the > > partition table) but not set it. If the busybox has a working fdisk, why is > > fdisk included in the boot floppies ? > > Can't help you much but libfdisk can read and write partition type blocks, > Mac, BSD, SUN etc. Lot of it is devoted to handling the DOS extended > partition scheme. > > But it can only read Amiga RDB type partitions, the RDB write is not > implemented (at least not in version I have been using). Ok, thanks for the information. > In the RedHat based installers, for partitioing you get a choice of > (a)fdisk or a newt based installer that uses libfdisk for read write. > > The newt method is not available to Amiga because of the lack of RDB > write. Guessed so. Thanks, Friendly, Sven LUTHER
