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Re: Bug#708424: d-i manual: Partitioning for Debian - confusing phrase



Lennart Sorensen, le Fri 17 May 2013 11:10:46 -0400, a écrit :
> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 01:59:51AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Holger Wansing, le Wed 15 May 2013 19:41:11 +0200, a écrit :
> > > I just read something in the d-i manual in 
> > > Appendix C. Partitioning for Debian (see
> > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apcs01.html.en), which is
> > > confusing:
> > > Shortened to some words, it's like this:
> > > 
> > > Debian needs at least one partition for itself.
> > > But you should probably spent some more partitions for Debian.
> > > You should at least create a root partition.
> > >                              ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Huh? You should create a root partition, but you don't have to?
> > > That's wrong.
> > > I would have prepared a patch, but I'm unsure what was really meant
> > > here.
> > 
> > I don't see why it should be "must" here, indeed.
> 
> I doesn't have to be a root partition.  Could be a root LV on LVM,
> and a number of other things too.

Ok, but you must create a root something.

Samuel


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