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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
To: Christian Suder <csuder@cisco.com>
Cc: Nick Papadonis <npapadon@yahoo.com>, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] DISREGARD 0.9.3 installer didn't set 712 bootable
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 15:28:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020103152828.C23472@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020101203848.1634246f.csuder@cisco.com>; from csuder@cisco.com on Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 08:38:48PM -0800

On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 08:38:48PM -0800, Christian Suder wrote:
> The standard fdisk utility in Linux is pretty PC-ish, so you can only have
> 4 primary partitions. However you can create one of them as "extended"
> partition, and within this partition you can create additional ones,

this was a deliberate decision on our part to use the PC partition format
by default.  i don't think it's one to be ashamed of.  hpux's partitioning
scheme wasn't appropriate, and there are more tools which understand pc
partitioning than understand, say, sgi disklabels.

-- 
Revolutions do not require corporate support.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-03 15:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-02  3:35 [parisc-linux] 0.9.3 installer didn't set 712 bootable Nick Papadonis
2002-01-02  4:21 ` [parisc-linux] DISREGARD " Nick Papadonis
2002-01-02  4:38   ` Christian Suder
2002-01-03 15:28     ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2002-01-03 18:03       ` Grant Grundler
2002-01-08 16:27         ` [parisc-linux] 712/80 and Quantum Fireball 1050MB HD problem Sorin Ghinescu
2002-01-08 22:00           ` [parisc-linux] 53c700 SCSI Driver Problems ~?= " Carlos O'Donell Jr.
2002-01-09  5:37           ` [parisc-linux] " Phil Anderson

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