On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > > What exactly do I need to put a Sun disk label on my disk? Solaris?? I > > hope not :) > > You can do it with fdisk. It's in the manual: > > http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/sparc/ch-init-config.en.html#s-dbootstrap-partition > > (Does dbootstrap in potato make this any more foolproof?)
Hmm the joke is on me I guess. Just because I wanted fdisk to actually /print/ `s' in the help before trying it out, I never made it to that point. Sure someone else mentioned `s' before but it did not occurr to me that one needs a /hidden feature/ to get things rolling. I can't tell about dbootstrap in potato but the one in slink happily initialized the swap partition and the existing filesystem without even /hinting/ at problems. Ok, ok, I missed the bit in the docs, I confess. It might be that I even read them but forgot about them as (nearly) everything worked out. Thanks anyway - but if fdisk in potato still does not mention `s' in its help I will file a bug against it. Cheers Detlev -- The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. -- G. H. Hardy