Miguel de Icaza wrote:
>
> > > Could someone rise to the challenge of writing a utility
> > > that will install Linux on an IRIX machine?
> >
> > I don't mind rising to that challenge, but one huge obstacle is how do we
> > get the utility to partition the Linux drive?
>
> the fx command is used to partition disks on IRIX. It took me a while
> to work around the user friendlyness of it, but then, I wanted to keep
> a part of my disk with XFS (because I just LOVE that file system) and
> the rest for my ext2fs.
>
> > I'm guessing the solution is to write a utility that from within Irix
> > talks directly to the raw SCSI disk to setup the partitions. I have NO
> > idea how to do this as I doubt the raw disk interface is anything like
> > that in Linux. Clues accepted.
>
> The only thing you need to do is access the first sector in the disk.
> this one holds the disk label with the current partition definitions.
> Oliver at .at was working on getting Linux FDISK up and running, you
> can probably talk with him.
>
> > > And give hints like:
> > > Sorry you don't have the e2fs tools installed on IRIX yet
> > > should I download them from ftp.linux.sgi.com [y/n]?
> >
> > Er, does such a tool in fact exist?
>
> Yes. get the e2fsprogs suite, it is the only thing you need to
> populate a file system.
>
> Miguel.
Is there ever ANY chance of seeing XFS in Linux? Or a flavor of a really
fast journaled file system?
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