cfdisk?

Gecklord · Apprentice Joined: 17 Mar 2004 Posts: 174

ain't there a cfdisk on the gentoo 2004.0 sparc livecd, or at least something you could compare with?
'cause I'm no fan of fdisk

ferdam · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 5:58 pm Post subject:

But you will use fdisk only once :!:

I don't know another partitioner for sparc.
You must pay attention on 3rd partition (/dev/hdx3) type=5, AKA Whole Disk, which it cannot be removed.
Follow the installation guide for sparc on gentoo site.

Regards,

Fernando
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Weeve · Retired Dev Joined: 30 Oct 2002 Posts: 641

Parted is also available, but if you don't like regular fdisk, I don't imagine you'll like parted much either.

ciaranm · Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2004 9:20 pm Post subject:

cfdisk doesn't handle sun disclabels properly. I strongly suggest not trying to use it on sparc, especially if you ever want to boot the thing...

spam_ · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2004 3:54 pm Post subject:

Funny, I dont seem to need a sun disklabel at all. All the sparcs I installed on ran fine without them. I suspect you only need it if you also want to boot Solaris.

Really what's wrong with fdisk? You only spend 2 minutes using it, and it _does_ work...