Re: fdisk is it available anywhere else?

1997-11-27 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Udjat the BitMeister... writes: On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, butch wrote: try cfdisk, I believe its also available on the debian disks. There appears to be a problem with cfdisk... when it writes the partition information, it isn't 'sufficiently' done. Like, if I set a partition

Re: fdisk is it available anywhere else?

1997-11-27 Thread David Wright
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: Udjat the BitMeister... writes: On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, butch wrote: try cfdisk, I believe its also available on the debian disks. There appears to be a problem with cfdisk... when it writes the partition information, it isn't

fdisk is it available anywhere else?

1997-11-23 Thread butch
Hi, I am getting ready to partition my disk and i must say that the tool that debian uses does not look as friendly as the fdisk that comes with other distributions. i was wondering if i can find fdisk for linux elsewhere or should you have any hints for using the debian tools. thanks, allan

Re: fdisk is it available anywhere else?

1997-11-23 Thread Alex Yukhimets
I am getting ready to partition my disk and i must say that the tool that debian uses does not look as friendly as the fdisk that comes with other distributions. i was wondering if i can find fdisk for linux elsewhere or should you have any hints for using the debian tools. HI. I can't

Re: fdisk is it available anywhere else?

1997-11-23 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 07:44:02AM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote: I am getting ready to partition my disk and i must say that the tool that debian uses does not look as friendly as the fdisk that comes with other distributions. i was wondering if i can find fdisk for linux elsewhere or

Re: fdisk is it available anywhere else?

1997-11-23 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
What tool that debian uses do you mean? The install package uses cfdisk, which some people prefer to fdisk. Personally, I prefer fdisk, but it is a matter of personal choice. If it is cfdisk that does not look as friendly, perhaps you should try fdisk. Both are in the util-linux package,

Re: fdisk is it available anywhere else?

1997-11-23 Thread ychim
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 07:44:02AM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote: I am getting ready to partition my disk and i must say that the tool that debian uses does not look as friendly as the fdisk that comes with other distributions. i was wondering if i can find fdisk

Re: fdisk is it available anywhere else?

1997-11-23 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Hi Butch, The installation disk uses cfdisk. You are free to use the alt-f2 combo to start a shell and use fdisk instead. I have to agree with you in prefering fdisk, but that's just because that's what I'm used to. HTH, Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux

Re: fdisk is it available anywhere else?

1997-11-23 Thread Udjat the BitMeister...
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, butch wrote: try cfdisk, I believe its also available on the debian disks. Hi, I am getting ready to partition my disk and i must say that the tool that debian uses does not look as friendly as the fdisk that comes with other distributions. i was wondering if i can