10.69. Dvhtool-1.0.1

The Dvhtool package is used to manipulate volume headers of devices using sgi disk labels.

10.69.1. Installation of Dvhtool

This program is required for the Arcload bootloader, which is for SGI Workstations and SGI Servers based on MIPS Processors.

This patch fixes build issues with Dvhtool and adds support for LVM and Linux partitions:

patch -Np1 -i ../dvhtool-1.0.1-fixes-1.patch

Prepare Dvhtool for compilation:

./configure \
    --prefix=/usr

Compile the package:

make

Install the package:

make install

Installed programs: dvhtool

dvhtool

A utility for displaying SGI disk partition and volume header information as well as for copying files to and from the volume header