Re: Default disk partition table type?

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Subject: Re: Default disk partition table type?
From: Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 16:59:24 -0700
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 2fllm2wv7ml.fsf@saruman.uio.no> (pere@hungry.com's message of "Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:02:56 +0000 (UTC)")
References: <[🔎] E18LilP-0006fM-00@saruman.uio.no> <[🔎] 20021211003302.GP24337@sleepie.demon.co.uk> <[🔎] 2fllm2wv7ml.fsf@saruman.uio.no>

pere@hungry.com (Petter Reinholdtsen) writes:

> OK.  Is this a good approximation?
>
>   #elif defined(ia64)
>   #  define DISK_LABEL "msdos"

No.  Any new ia64 installation should use GPT, not FAT-style MSDOS labels.

Bdale

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