On 04/05/2011 03:56 AM, Brendan Long wrote:
On 04/04/2011 05:01 AM, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote:
On 04/04/2011 12:04 AM, Brendan Long wrote:
On 03/27/2011 01:47 AM, KESHAV P.R. wrote:
On a side note, I think it is also useful to have GPT
partitioning as default now since it is way superior to MBR (see
logical partitions linked-list info) and supports multiple primary
partitions.
I'm not sure that it's a good idea to make GPT the default any time
soon, since most tools don't support it very well yet, and most versions
of Windows won't boot of it (much as I hate holding things back for
worse operating systems, having a default that makes it impossible to
boot Windows seems like a bad idea). Having it available in the
installer would be really nice though. Even just including gdisk and
syslinux on the install disk would make things a lot easier in some
situations.
FYI the installer/live installer already includes gptfdisk (gdisk) and
syslinux.
I don't believe that "lets worry about windows" is a good argument. If
a user is installing arch they should be able to read documentation
and determine which is the best for them MBR or GPT.
I just booted off a USB stick to make sure, and the current installer[1]
doesn't have gdisk (although it does have syslinux, which I didn't realize).
[1] http://www.archlinux.org/download/
That will soon be one year old. The *current* installer is here:
http://releng.archlinux.org/isos/ That's what everyone has been talking
about.
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