Re: [PowerMac] pdisk for Debian?

2000-02-23 Thread David Given
[...] Strange, was thinking this same thing this morning while doing lots of partitionning. but i lack time for doing such a thing alone right now, but i could contribute the amiga-fdisk part if someone else is doing the rest of it. Stock Intel fdisk already supports PC, Sun and SGI partition

Re: [PowerMac] pdisk for Debian?

2000-02-22 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 03:20:31PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Monday 21 February 2000, at 20 h 32, the keyboard of Stephane Bortzmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK, pdisk is a freeware program from redhat, ... is freely available

Re: [PowerMac] pdisk for Debian?

2000-02-22 Thread Tom Rini
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: debian includes mac-fdisk in the base which AFAICT is the same program as pdisk. Sounds about right. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mac-fdisk]$ cat /usr/share/doc/mac-fdisk/copyright This package was debianized by Michael Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 11 Jan

Re: [PowerMac] pdisk for Debian?

2000-02-22 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 02:01:53PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: debian includes mac-fdisk in the base which AFAICT is the same program as pdisk. Sounds about right. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mac-fdisk]$ cat /usr/share/doc/mac-fdisk/copyright This package

Re: [PowerMac] pdisk for Debian?

2000-02-22 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 03:20:31PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Monday 21 February 2000, at 20 h 32, the keyboard of Stephane Bortzmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK, pdisk is a freeware program from redhat, ... is freely available

Re: [PowerMac] pdisk for Debian?

2000-02-22 Thread Tom Rini
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Sven LUTHER wrote: On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 03:20:31PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Monday 21 February 2000, at 20 h 32, the keyboard of Stephane Bortzmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK, pdisk is a

Re: [PowerMac] pdisk for Debian?

2000-02-22 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 03:58:53AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: what would be really nice is if someone would make some improvments on this utility, its quite buggy and lacks some useful aspects such as being able to change an existing partition's type... (don't ask im not a programmer ;-))

Re: [PowerMac] pdisk for Debian?

2000-02-22 Thread Tom Rini
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 03:58:53AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: (The HFS specifics could be grabbed from perldisk. iirc brian went and rewrote parts that he needed to). huh? HFS has nothing at all to do with partition tables, its just a filesystem

Re: [PowerMac] pdisk for Debian?

2000-02-21 Thread Nelson Abramson
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: It seems Debian does not provide pdisk, neither in the disks-powerpc directory (where the MacOS version could be useful), nor in the base system for PowerPC. If you really want pdisk, you can get it from linuxppc. Is it for a licensing problem? I know no other

Re: [PowerMac] pdisk for Debian?

2000-02-21 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sunday 20 February 2000, at 23 h 28, the keyboard of Nelson Abramson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you really want pdisk, you can get it from linuxppc. Tell me where. I've digged their FTP server in detail. AFAIK, pdisk is a freeware program from redhat, that was ported to macos. pdisk

Re: [PowerMac] pdisk for Debian?

2000-02-21 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Monday 21 February 2000, at 20 h 32, the keyboard of Stephane Bortzmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK, pdisk is a freeware program from redhat, ... is freely available from linuxppc. The licence can be found in It seems terribly non-free and the source does not seem to be available

Re: [PowerMac] pdisk for Debian?

2000-02-21 Thread Tom Rini
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Monday 21 February 2000, at 20 h 32, the keyboard of Stephane Bortzmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK, pdisk is a freeware program from redhat, ... is freely available from linuxppc. The licence can be found in It seems

[PowerMac] pdisk for Debian?

2000-02-19 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
It seems Debian does not provide pdisk, neither in the disks-powerpc directory (where the MacOS version could be useful), nor in the base system for PowerPC. Is it for a licensing problem? I know no other gratis program to share a disk between MacOS and Linux partitions. PS: does anyone