From: Mike Sanders (sanders@server.physics.lsa.umich.edu)
Date: 05/01/92


From: Mike Sanders <sanders@server.physics.lsa.umich.edu>
Subject: Re: pfdisk
Date: Fri, 1 May 1992 17:12:24 GMT

alsaggaf@athena.mit.edu (M. Saggaf) (Thu, 30 Apr) writes:
|...
| I tried installing Linux today on a large hard disk. However, pfdisk
|does not work. I made a 40 MB DOS partition by DOS's fdisk. Trying to
|add Linux partitions by pfdisk (that comes with Linux rootimage95a)
|gives a message like:
|...
|How can partition my disk? I have a 200 MB drive. Help!

I found it straightforward to partition my HD with pfdisk from the DOS
side. (I also had trouble from the Linux side.) I have submitted
pfdisktc.zip to tsx-11.mit.edu. It includes pfdisk.exe, and the
sources (slightly modified from pfdisk.tar.Z) to compile under Turbo-C
on the DOS side.

        Michael Sanders