Re: [martinw...@yahoo.it: Bug#497165: amiga-fdisk-cross is not being built on any architecture other than i386]

2008-10-09 Thread Michael Schmitz
It's not upto buildd admins, it's upto packages-arch-specific[1] maintainers (cc:'d). Please change the atari-fdisk p-a-s entry to match what's on the package sources: amiga-fdisk-cross: !m68k !poweprc # Everything but m68k/ppc amiga

Re: [martinw...@yahoo.it: Bug#497165: amiga-fdisk-cross is not being built on any architecture other than i386]

2008-10-08 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 08:52:31PM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > could the buildd admins please enable building for amiga-fdisk and upload > the resulting packages (powerpc has been built, but it seems it was never > uploaded). First off, debian-ports is not the right contact ad

Re: [martinw...@yahoo.it: Bug#497165: amiga-fdisk-cross is not being built on any architecture other than i386]

2008-10-08 Thread Riku Voipio
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 08:52:31PM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote: > could the buildd admins please enable building for amiga-fdisk and upload > the resulting packages (powerpc has been built, but it seems it was never > uploaded). It's not upto buildd admins, it's upto pac

[martinw...@yahoo.it: Bug#497165: amiga-fdisk-cross is not being built on any architecture other than i386]

2008-10-08 Thread Christian T. Steigies
Hi, could the buildd admins please enable building for amiga-fdisk and upload the resulting packages (powerpc has been built, but it seems it was never uploaded). thanks, Christian - Forwarded message from Martin Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Subject: Bug#497165: amiga-fdisk-cross

Re: fdisk(8) in sparc d-i?

2007-04-04 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 03:10:51PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > Why isn't there a fdisk utility available in the shell that d-i spawns? > > > > There's parted, but that's not it :) > > Oddly enough, I see > > /cdrom/pool/main/u/util-linux/fdis

Re: fdisk(8) in sparc d-i?

2007-04-04 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 03:04:54PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > Why isn't there a fdisk utility available in the shell that d-i spawns? > > There's parted, but that's not it :) Oddly enough, I see /cdrom/pool/main/u/util-linux/fdisk-udeb_2.12r-19_sparc.udeb Yet the &q

fdisk(8) in sparc d-i?

2007-04-04 Thread Josip Rodin
Hi, Why isn't there a fdisk utility available in the shell that d-i spawns? There's parted, but that's not it :) -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

fdisk for huge partitions

2006-09-12 Thread Jurzitza, Dieter
Dear listmembers, given partition sizes beyond 1 TByte fdisk displays nonsense (i. e. negative numbers) on sparc (at least). I have prepared and tested a small patch to cope with this (up to 2 TByte, at last). Can someone tell me whom to send the patch to? Maintainers for the sparc portion were

Question on fdisk

2004-11-03 Thread Jurzitza, Dieter
Dear listmembers, I use a raid-array with the following configuration: CHS 145890/254/63 what causes fdisk (fdisk -v gives v2.12) to generate a wraparound (I assume it is caused by the 1 TByte boundary: /dev/sda1 01 32256 83 Linux native /dev/sda2 1 642032128

Re: fdisk

2004-05-29 Thread Patrick Finnegan
On Saturday 29 May 2004 13:31, Erwan MAS wrote: > On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 09:50:38AM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote: > [../..] > > | > the first 512 byte of /dev/hda and the 512 byte of /dev/hda1 are > | > identical . > | > | That's the case if hda1 starts at cylinder 0. And it is unlike the > | PC w

Re: fdisk

2004-05-29 Thread Patrick Morris
Philippe Troin wrote: Frederik Schueler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Sure? I killed my U2 with / starting at 0 when I updated silo. I had to reinstall, and now the partition begins at 0, and I had no trouble anymore. AFAIK, starting at cyl 0 is correct. It is. I offer as proof a

Re: fdisk

2004-05-29 Thread Erwan MAS
On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 09:50:38AM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote: [../..] | > the first 512 byte of /dev/hda and the 512 byte of /dev/hda1 are | > identical . | | That's the case if hda1 starts at cylinder 0. And it is unlike the PC | where the first 512 bytes (the MBR) is not part of any partition

Re: fdisk

2004-05-29 Thread Philippe Troin
Frederik Schueler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 09:50:38AM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote: > > > the partition must be start at cyl. 0 or at cyl. 1 ? > > > > Cylinder 0, if you're you going to use silo. > > Sure? I killed my U2 with / starting at 0 when I updated si

Re: fdisk

2004-05-29 Thread Frederik Schueler
Hi, On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 09:50:38AM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote: > > the partition must be start at cyl. 0 or at cyl. 1 ? > > Cylinder 0, if you're you going to use silo. Sure? I killed my U2 with / starting at 0 when I updated silo. I had to reinstall, and now the partition begins at 0, and

Re: fdisk

2004-05-29 Thread Philippe Troin
Erwan MAS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello , > > I don't understand something in the sparc version of fdisk . > > fdisk -l /dev/hda > > /dev/hda1 0 406204624 83 Linux native > /dev/hda2 u406 3453 1535688 82 L

fdisk

2004-05-29 Thread Erwan MAS
Hello , I don't understand something in the sparc version of fdisk . fdisk -l /dev/hda /dev/hda1 0 406204624 83 Linux native /dev/hda2 u406 3453 1535688 82 Linux swap /dev/hda3 0 12019 60575765 Whole disk /dev/hda4

Re: Ultra10 / woody / 120 GB HD / fdisk and geometry

2004-03-15 Thread Steve Pacenka
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/ide/hdc/model > Maxtor 6Y120L0 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/ide/hdc/geometry > physical 238216/16/63 > logical 238216/16/63 > > > But fdisk doesn't want to let me specify a custom geometry (typi

Ultra10 / woody / 120 GB HD / fdisk and geometry

2004-03-14 Thread Nathanael Camelot
$ cat /proc/ide/hdc/geometry physical 238216/16/63 logical 238216/16/63 But fdisk doesn't want to let me specify a custom geometry (typing ? doesn't do anything) : thething:/home/nath# fdisk -v fdisk v2.11n thething:/home/nath# fdisk /dev/hdc [...]

Re: debian sparc fdisk question

2003-07-10 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 10:33:26PM +0200, Rafael Pinilla wrote: > Wath is the 'mountable flag' > Is it in relation to the 'boot flag' in i386 arch ? It's mainly a legacy Solaris flag, and no it has nothing to do with bootable. Any partition is bootable. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Lin

debian sparc fdisk question

2003-07-10 Thread Rafael Pinilla
Wath is the 'mountable flag' Is it in relation to the 'boot flag' in i386 arch ? Rafael -- -- Dr Rafael Pinilla Médecin mail://[EMAIL PROTECTED]Linux addict since 1992 http://www.newsmedicales.com L'actualité m

Fdisk problems.

2003-05-03 Thread Dimitri Goldin
Hello *, I have a little trouble partitioning my disks with fdisk on a SparcStation 5. First I add an _empty_ Sun disklabel with 's'. Autoconfigure doesnt work so it take custom. After that I have a disklabel, but thats not empty. There is a swap and a native partition on it. Because I

fdisk partitions not sticking around after boot...

2002-12-17 Thread Brian Macy
I realize the write error is somewhat normal but after reboot the partition isn't there. Thoughts? Things I should try? This is on a U2. boaz:~# uname -a Linux boaz 2.4.19 #1 SMP Sat Oct 5 16:03:12 EDT 2002 sparc64 unknown unknown GNU/Linux boaz:~# fdisk /dev/sda Command (m for hel

Re: fdisk in a Sun Blade 100

2002-08-20 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Marco Rodriguez wrote: Somebody, can send me a fdisk -l /dev/hda please TIA Disk /dev/hda (Sun disk label): 16 heads, 63 sectors, 38790 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device FlagStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 0

Re: fdisk in a Sun Blade 100

2002-08-20 Thread Kent West
Marco Rodriguez wrote: Somebody, can send me a fdisk -l /dev/hda please TIA Disk /dev/hda (Sun disk label): 16 heads, 63 sectors, 38790 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device FlagStart EndBlocks Id System /dev/hda1 010 5040

fdisk in a Sun Blade 100

2002-08-19 Thread Marco Rodriguez
Somebody, can send me a fdisk -l /dev/hda please TIA -- Marco Rodriguez M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] U. Bio Bio Conce.

Re: fdisk message error

2001-09-13 Thread Roberto Giorgetti
s up exactly and try to remount the partitions once you > reconfigure. I would backup your important stuff before attempting > this, though :) > > the r flag means the partition is mountable...not an issue. you can > turn it off and on using the "c" option in fdisk if yo

Re: fdisk message error

2001-09-12 Thread Thomas Duffy
he numbers up exactly and try to remount the partitions once you reconfigure. I would backup your important stuff before attempting this, though :) the r flag means the partition is mountable...not an issue. you can turn it off and on using the "c" option in fdisk if you do not like it t

Re: fdisk message error

2001-09-12 Thread Roberto Giorgetti
Thank you Tom for your answer. (Also to Hakan for his one, I subscribe his question about the 'r'-Flag meaning). Maybe I didn't understand well how I have to proceed. In fact starting from the situation: -- Device FlagStart

Re: fdisk message error

2001-09-12 Thread Thomas Duffy
On Tue, 2001-09-11 at 13:12, Roberto Giorgetti wrote: > -- >Device FlagStart EndBlocks Id System > /dev/hda1 r 0 8322 4194288 83 Linux native > /dev/hda2 8322 8842262080 82 Lin

Fwd: Re: fdisk message error

2001-09-12 Thread hakubw00
Hello, first of all my condolence to all U.S. citizens, I still can not believe what happend. Quoting Roberto Giorgetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The 9Gb disk of my SUN Ultra 5 machine with Debian unstable is > not completely used, so I run fdisk /dev/hda and p command

fdisk message error

2001-09-11 Thread Roberto Giorgetti
The 9Gb disk of my SUN Ultra 5 machine with Debian unstable is not completely used, so I run fdisk /dev/hda and p command receiving: -- Disk /dev/hda (Sun disk label): 16 heads, 63 sectors, 16706 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512

Re: fdisk on sunos

2001-06-19 Thread Ari Heitner
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Andy Dougherty wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Ari Heitner wrote: > > > Hmm, Linux's fdisk can handle things just fine, if you're willing to kill > > some > > Sun slices to make room for Linux. This seems to be the logical thing to > >

Re: fdisk on sunos

2001-06-19 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Ari Heitner wrote: > Hmm, Linux's fdisk can handle things just fine, if you're willing to kill some > Sun slices to make room for Linux. This seems to be the logical thing to > do: copy the data from a slice or two to somewhere else, change Solaris's

Re: fdisk on sunos

2001-06-19 Thread Ari Heitner
; the expert in Unix :-D] > > So, where could I find a "quickstart guide" for how to repartition with > SunOS fdisk? > (after that, "boot cdrom" and that's all, isn't it? ;-) Hmm, Linux's fdisk can handle things just fine, if you're willing to

fdisk on sunos

2001-06-18 Thread Carlinux
" for how to repartition with SunOS fdisk? (after that, "boot cdrom" and that's all, isn't it? ;-) I mean, I need a kind of "Linux-to-SunOS-HOWTO". Many thanks. All the best. carlos

Problem with fdisk/woody

2001-01-13 Thread Olivier Bornet
Hello, I have a problem with fdisk on my Ultra 10. My system is a woody debian, with kernel 2.2.18pre21, fdisk from util-linux 2.10q-1. At the installation, I have create only 2 partitions : hda1 with 2GB ext2 for root, and hda2 with 128 MB for swap. (OK, I have also hda3 which is the Whole disk

Re: fdisk and native partition formats (was: Re: Problems with SILO (Sparc slink))

1999-12-20 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Eric Delaunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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? I dunno.

Re: fdisk and native partition formats (was: Re: Problems with SILO (Sparc slink))

1999-12-16 Thread Eric Delaunay
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 f

Re: fdisk and native partition formats (was: Re: Problems with SILO (Sparc slink))

1999-12-16 Thread Jean-Paul Blaquiere
> 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? > alph

fdisk and native partition formats (was: Re: Problems with SILO (Sparc slink))

1999-12-14 Thread Eric Delaunay
Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > Eric Delaunay wrote: > > Hmm, this thread is too repetitive. I propose to fix the installer to > > enfore a > > Sun disklabel on the disk. > > I guess it could be fixed in either 2 ways: > > - add some obscure option to fdisk tell

Re: fdisk ?

1999-11-15 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Ben Collins wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 04:29:28PM +0100, Gergely Madarasz wrote: > > Hello, > > > > It seems the new util-linux provides fdisk for sparc. Is this a good fdisk? > > If yes, should util-linux conflict & replace the

Re: fdisk ?

1999-11-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 04:29:28PM +0100, Gergely Madarasz wrote: > Hello, > > It seems the new util-linux provides fdisk for sparc. Is this a good fdisk? > If yes, should util-linux conflict & replace the old fdisk package on > sp

fdisk ?

1999-11-15 Thread Gergely Madarasz
Hello, It seems the new util-linux provides fdisk for sparc. Is this a good fdisk? If yes, should util-linux conflict & replace the old fdisk package on sparc ? -- Madarasz Gergely [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's practically impossible to look at a pe

util-linux & fdisk

1999-10-05 Thread Eric Delaunay
Hello, since slink release, fdisk & hwclock are provided by util-linux. It conflicts & replaces the old fdisk & clock packages I maintained a long time ago because util-linux 2.7 did not include them. However, I just discovered that these packages were not removed from the archive

fdisk problem

1999-10-03 Thread Walter Keeler
even with gzipping the tar file, it was still too big to fit on either of the final two partitions, so I decided to consolidate them into a single partition. Problem is that I get the following error message every time I try to write the updated partition table from fdisk: Calling ioctl() to re

Re: inital install & fdisk

1998-02-04 Thread Stephen Zander
Eric Delaunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BTW, the next step will be to create the base archive. Then I will need libc6 > versions of packages not already rebuilt. > Especially, is anyone working on dpkg ? perl ? I'm happy to to do perl (have ported it elsewhere before). Only problem is I'm no

Re: inital install & fdisk

1998-02-04 Thread Anders Hammarquist
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >BTW, the next step will be to create the base archive. Then I will need libc6 >versions of packages not already rebuilt. >Especially, is anyone working on dpkg ? perl ? I got dpkg to compile decently. I'll have a final look at it and make sure everythin

Re: inital install & fdisk

1998-02-03 Thread Eric Delaunay
ill need libc6 versions of packages not already rebuilt. Especially, is anyone working on dpkg ? perl ? Bye. PS: I've packaged procps & fdisk. I will upload them along with boot-floppies. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAI

Re: inital install & fdisk

1998-01-31 Thread Eric Delaunay
(from kernel-package 3.53) to support SILO instead of LILO. I'm also working on new bootdisks but some packages/files are missing. Especially there is no fdisk. Anyone want to package fdisk for sparc ? (consider getting fdisk-2.5-1.src.rpm from RedHat). Yesterday I packaged ash, cpio & ut

Re: inital install & fdisk

1998-01-31 Thread Stephen Zander
Eric Delaunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Even if the msdos fs is compiled into the kernel, the installation will fail > because resc1440.bin have to be mounted through the loop service and this one > fails if the image to mount is on nfs partition. Oh, joy... Well, I'm past that point anyway (

Re: inital install & fdisk

1998-01-31 Thread Eric Delaunay
Stephen Zander wrote: > > Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm now further into this install (being done on a part-time basis) > > and am curious about something: > > > > Why do swapsetup, dinstall & co run as nobody? > > Don't ya love talking to yourself > > After actuall

Re: inital install & fdisk

1998-01-31 Thread Stephen Zander
Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm now further into this install (being done on a part-time basis) > and am curious about something: > > Why do swapsetup, dinstall & co run as nobody? Don't ya love talking to yourself After actually turning my brain on for half a minute

Re: inital install & fdisk

1998-01-31 Thread Stephen Zander
Stephen Zander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks. Now if I could just get dinstall to use it... I'm now further into this install (being done on a part-time basis) and am curious about something: Why do swapsetup, dinstall & co run as nobody? -- Stephen --- "Normality is a statisti

Re: inital install & fdisk

1998-01-29 Thread Stephen Zander
Eric Delaunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There is an old fdisk binary at > ftp://lix.polytechnique.fr/pub/Linux/debian/sparc/bo/disks-sparc/fdisk > > It was based on util-linux 2.5 with RH patches. > There is no fdisk for sparc in the current util-linux release (

Re: inital install & fdisk

1998-01-27 Thread Eric Delaunay
Stephen Zander wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark W. Eichin) writes: > > > Actually, though, the kernel will *mount* disks that have x86-linux > > style partition tables -- sparc-fdisk will core dump on them, though. > > All vaery well & good (& I already kn

Re: inital install & fdisk

1998-01-27 Thread Stephen Zander
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark W. Eichin) writes: > Actually, though, the kernel will *mount* disks that have x86-linux > style partition tables -- sparc-fdisk will core dump on them, though. All vaery well & good (& I already knew about Sun's disk tables). The question remains how

Re: inital install & fdisk

1998-01-24 Thread Mark W. Eichin
Actually, though, the kernel will *mount* disks that have x86-linux style partition tables -- sparc-fdisk will core dump on them, though. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: inital install & fdisk

1998-01-24 Thread Tom Dyas
On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Xavier Beaudouin wrote: > On 23 Jan 1998, Stephen Zander wrote: > [snip] > > I was especially suprised to see the dinstaal doc refering to partition > > type 83. Is Linux/Sparc using i386 (I won't say MS-DOS) style > > partitioning? > > I assume yes ! Sparc systems do _not_

Re: inital install & fdisk

1998-01-24 Thread Xavier Beaudouin
On 23 Jan 1998, Stephen Zander wrote: > Finally got 'round to installing Linux on my spare Sparc5. However, I'm > running into a problem that the odes are a little vague on. > > No fdisk! I got the same problem... And I didn't find any solutions... > I was

inital install & fdisk

1998-01-24 Thread Stephen Zander
Finally got 'round to installing Linux on my spare Sparc5. However, I'm running into a problem that the odes are a little vague on. No fdisk! The readme mumbles about a cfdisk port from i386 to sparc. Has this been done? Are there any notes to help a brave soul (me) undertake such an