Re: Elks Distribution

Neil Holmes
2002-05-26T08:07:44Z

Many Thanks.

This is valuable information.

Neil

On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 09:00, Riley Williams wrote:
> Hi Neil.
>
> > I will, indeed, look very closely at your remarks as I move forward.
> > I am particularly interested by the partition.c.
>
> If you're using ash as your install shell, you should be able to use the
> following script...
>
> #!/bin/ash
>
> :
>
> fdisk /dev/bda
> TGT=$(partype 80)
>
> ...and, from this point, you just use ${TGT} as the target partition.
> I can't test this at the moment as I'm not near a suitable system, so
> the above is pure theory at this point. However, memory says that sash
> does not support the necessary facilities.
>
> Also note that if we move to /dev/hda instead of /dev/bda then only the
> fdisk line needs changing, and the rest of the code will work as is.
>
> Best wishes from Riley.
>
>