On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Sanjeev Gupta wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 12/7/99 11:40:34 PM US Mountain Standard Time, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > /dev/sda1 0 1100 396000 83 Linux native > > > /dev/sda2 u 1100 1151 18360 82 Linux swap > > > /dev/sda3 0 1151 414360 0 Empt > > The "u" is "unmountable". No idea why, but it exists, as a flag, on SunOS > as well. > > To the original poster, are you sure that you are formatting the disk on a > Sparc Linux box? Yep. That Sparc was purchased second-hand with an unbootable Solaris/SunOS system on it. After mounting the original partition and poking around I removed all the partitions except sda3 and repartitioned it with fdisk from the slink floppy install set. -- Ferret no baka