[openbeos] Re: BeOS Support Tools....
- From: "Andrew Edward McCall" <mccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 17:53:33 -0800
>I rarely use anything but fdisk, it's a standard command (even if the
windows
>one is strange); why not port it ? GUI for this type of thing is not
needed fr the beginning.
>Early versions of BeOS used LILO, I don't see why we couldn't use it.
>a GDB port could be harder, but hey, it was even ported with Palm
pilots as a
>target :) (and yes gdb is a cmdline tool, but there are lot of gui
wrappers, as DDD... which I heard is awsome).
That would be OK for development builds, but you have to remember who
BeOS was targetted at.
I personally can use fdisk till my fingers bleed, but if your going to
"stick with the spirit" of BeOS, it might need something close to a
re-write.
Actually, I would be glad for a rewrite, the original one sucks, and has
wrecked many a partition of mine!
After looking over openbeos.org I see that the boot loader seems to be
covered by the Kernel team, so thats not an issue.
>En réponse à Andrew Edward McCall <mccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> After a quick look back at the list archives there seems to be a gap
in
>> the areas covered by the OpenBeOS project. There doesn't seem to be
any
>> support tools such as hard disk partition programs and boot loaders
and
>> debuggers (I can't think of any others right now, but I am sure there
>> will be some!)
>> I realise that you should be able to use the original ones for a
while,
>> but obviously not when OpenBeOS gets turned into a complete OS.
>> Are these going to be covered in the BFS or Kernel teams, or have
these
>> been "missed"?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Andrew Edward McCall
>> mccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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