Re: cfdisk on sparc?

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Mon, 2004-09-06 11:00:38 +0100, David Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Monday 06 September 2004 04:23, Nick Smith wrote:
> > Cant seem to find cfdisk when I know it was there on the x86 version, is it
> > compatible with sparc? Here is what I get:
> 
> Cfdisk is only available for alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel & 
> powerpc. I presume there is some reason why it doesn't work on sparc.

cfdisk is AFAIK only used to edit DOS or PC-BIOS like partition tables.
Sparc computers use their "slices" only, so there's exactly no use for
such a partition sector on a Sparc computer's harddisk...

MfG, JBG

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