On 04/05/2011 03:24 AM, cantabile wrote: > 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. Why are these not listed on the download page?
