From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Neil Holmes Subject: Re: Elks Distribution Date: 26 May 2002 09:07:44 +0100 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1022400464.2053.27.camel@nhthinkpad> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Riley Williams Cc: Linux 8086 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. > >