Re: fdisk for linux-sgi

[ralf@uni-koblenz.de]

On Fri, Jan 09, 1998 at 01:06:46PM +0100, Edwin Hakkennes wrote:

> I'm trying to get an indy running Linux. I downloaded the Getting_started
> stuff, and unpacked it. All seems to be fine, except that I cannot find
> an fdisk program on this file-system. (root-be-0.01.cpio)
> 
> My question is: How do I partition the disk. I have one, empty 2G disk 
> on which only Linux should be installed. 
> 
> Is it neccesary to put the disk in a PC for partioning?

No.  You can use the software included under IRIX.  If the disk you are
connecting is not the bootdisk, means sash & the kernel don't reside on
it you can also partition the disk on a pc.  This may be handy for
data exchange.

  Ralf