Re: Debian Installer - Problems Partitioning
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 03:23:58PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> Jiann-Ming Su wrote:
>
> | I thought Debian's installer used cfdisk. For more info in partitioning
> | with fdisk:
> |
> | http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/partition-5.html
>
> If by "Debian's installer" you mean "boot floppies on i386" then
> that's true. It's never been used on alpha -- boot-floppies used
> straight fdisk, and debian-installer uses partman (as it does on most
> other architectures).
In fact, if you are on Alpha, you cfdisk will *not* work for the disk
that SRM is booting from. It *will* work if you are using
AlphaBIOS/MILO, IIRC.
-- John
>
> (boot-floppies is the name of the installer used in woody and previous
> distributions. debian-installer is the new installer that will be
> used in sarge.)
>
> Cameron.
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