Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 23:48:44 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: vezku@surfeu.fi Cc: sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: partly solved - 5.1-RELEASE - - fdisk - bsdlabel - vinum Message-ID: <20030613064844.GA13540@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <4465.62.142.81.6.1055485283.squirrel@redbull.tiscali.fi> References: <4344.62.142.81.6.1055332511.squirrel@webmail.surfeu.fi> <20030612062652.GA748@funkthat.com> <20030612222746.GC1015@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4465.62.142.81.6.1055485283.squirrel@redbull.tiscali.fi>
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vezku@surfeu.fi wrote this message on Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 09:21 +0300: > BTW, it would be wise to mention this partition/label issue somewhere in > the release document. As far as I get it sysinstall is the only way to > create partitions on sparc64? Why is fdisk missing? Or am I just dumb, > which is possible too. :-) fdisk is a wart from x86... Since we are on sparcs, we do it sun's way which is to just stick a disklabel at the front of the disk. > And the promised document is available at: > http://vesku.sdf-eu.org/txt/vinum.txt > > Thanks for all the hard work on sparc64 port. I can't help on programming, > but in testing. I will have an extra SUN 250E available soon. Not the > latest SUN box, but better than nothing. Could you test my recent pci/dae pair of patches I posted? If you didn't see them, they are at: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jmg/pci.mfdev.patch http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jmg/sparc.dae.patch This makes the attaching of PCI devices more robust on the Sparc. -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."
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