Re: Probably stupid question

On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 11:18:15AM -0500, Tom Oehser wrote:
> 
> Are you aware that fdisk can be automated, if you feed it the input
> that would be input by the user, to its standard input?  It might be
> easier to just use this means of scripting fdisk.  I've thought
> about writing a wrapper that would take sfdisk script and make fdisk
> standard input commands, but I havn't done it yet.

Actually, I've already done it. See the "Linux Complete Backup and
Recovery HOWTO", available at the Linux Documentation Project,
http://www.tldp.org/ and on many Linux distributions. See the script
make.fdisk in that HOWTO.

Juan, if you make your CD-building script available to the public, I'd
like to refer readers of the HOWTO to it.

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