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On 6/17/2011 1:53 PM, PRASANTH RAJAGOPAL wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I used to do run some commands on Cygwin, until I completely moved to
> Linux based development. I have a situation where I thought Cygwin can
> help me.
>

> If I read mails correctly, the cygwin-1.3.16-1 release has fdisk with
> it (http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg01300.html), but it
> was ultimately removed, and perhaps we need to compile now. from
> source. Now, I am not interested in code compilation for time being
> (got to do with a lot of Linux kernel compilation now...); I might
> just buy a cheap Card reader.
>
> Questions (assuming cygwin fdisk can indeed help me partition the SDcard):
>
> 1. Is it true that cygwin-1.3.16-1 haD fdisk, if so where can I find
> that older release setup.exe?
> 2. Is there a way I can get the package to the latest release without
> compilation?
>
> Thanks.

fdisk is still present

http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=util-linux%2Futil-linux-2.17.2-1&grep=fdisk

no need to look on ancient cywgin versions.

Marco

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