Jean-Paul Blaquiere wrote: > > On Dec 14, Eric Delaunay scrawled : > > > Btw, how other arches (alpha, ppc, m68k, ...) are supposed to work with non > > native partition formats ? Is there a need for such a scheme for them ? > > Or is it just an artifact of sparc fdisk that also support i386 partitions? > > > alpha can work with either 386 partitioning or BSD style. It depends on the > boot method used as to which partitioning style can be used. There are two > console types available and both are not available on all machine types :(
Is there a simple way to detect what format is required (eg. looking into /proc/somewhere) ? Then dbootstrap can warn the user about wrong partition formats. Btw, I will start coding the skeleton in few days and implement the sparc specific part. Hope people will do it for other arches as well. Regards. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)