On Sat, Oct 16, 2004 at 06:37:00PM -0400, Brian S. Julin wrote: > On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Steve Langasek wrote: > > I have no explanation for the VM errors you received; I don't believe > > this is related to the partitioning question. > On subsequent thought, I do notice that the logs generated are quite > large. Perhaps the VM problems were due to running out of memory because > the ramdisk was full of log messages. This system had 64M. Ah, yes, this seems likely. > WRT the disklabel question, I really don't see a way to avoid prompting the > user with the option of using disklabel versus DOS partitions, other than > making disklabel the default on alpha, and then you still have to deal > with drives that have resident DOS partition tables. Whatever the solution > ends up being, the situation with aboot deserves coverage in the > installation manual. As it happens, disklabels *are* the default for alpha... when you're creating a new partition table. In other cases, I agree that this is a documentation issue. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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