I do not understand the following paragraph in partitioning.po. Unless you wish to use the disk you are partitioning from Tru64 Unix or one of the free 4.4BSD-Lite derived operating systems (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, or NetBSD), it is suggested that you do <emphasis>not</emphasis> make the third partition contain the whole disk. This is not required by <command>aboot</command>, and in fact, it may lead to confusion since the <command>swriteboot</command> utility used to install <command>aboot</command> in the boot sector will complain about a partition overlapping with the boot block. Does it mean: 1) If the disk previously contained Tru64 Unix or one of the free 4.4BSD-Lite ..., the third partition should not contain the whole disk if you want to use the disk for GNU/Linux only. or 2) Only if you are partitioning the disk using partitioning tools from Tru64 Unix or one of the free 4.4.BSD-Lite ..., is it suggested that you do <emphasis>not</emphasis> make the third partition contain the whole disk. -- Tapio Lehtonen tapio.lehtonen@iki.fi http://www.iki.fi/tapio.lehtonen
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