On Thursday 17 August 2006 16:43, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: > 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. Almost certainly this one. Perhaps this makes it clearer: "..., it is not necessary to create the third partition as a "whole disk" partition (i.e. with start and end sectors to span the whole disk). In fact ..." Should I commit this for the original English version?
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