Subject: Re: fdisk missing
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>
From: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/22/2005 11:50:50
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Hello,

>   | I just wanted to note that I installed NetBSD 2.0.2 from a cd and
>   | fdisk seems to be missing in the base system.
>   |=20
>   | dhcppc12:root(53)$ cd /sbin ; ls fdisk
>   | ls: fdisk: No such file or directory
>=20
>=20
> I've fixed this in NetBSD-current by making fdisk available on all
> platforms, which is useful given that MS-DOS partitioning is the
> de-facto standard on many removable media types.

Maybe we should add a device number for wd to majors.sparc too - these
days there are a few ways to get IDEish hardware into SPARCs, like
PCMCIA disks, CF-adaptors and the like.

have fun
Michael

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