On 04/05/2011 08:21 PM, Brendan Long wrote:
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?
Well, those are generated automatically and the release engineers don't
want potentially broken images to appear on the official download page.
It has been discussed on arch-releng but I don't remember the thread's
title.
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cantabile
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