Subject: Re: initial disk setup
To: Peter <plp@actcom.co.il>
From: Jonathan A. Kollasch <jakllsch@kollasch.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/15/2006 19:02:20
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On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 08:30:21PM +0300, Peter wrote:
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> I have done a manual disk setup from scratch and it was very hard. Could=
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> a tool like sfdisk be adopted for netbsd ? Either that or a very=20
> accurate howto released for this ?

sfdisk looks very much like fdisk(8).

Partitioning seems simple to me:

- Optionally, encompass the entire disk with an MBR partition.
- run disklabel -i

Now, the suggested wedge editor would be nice, but we have all the
necessary tools (with the notable exception of the one(s) for GPT)
for the platforms we support.

	Jonathan Kollasch


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