From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29774 invoked by uid 1002); 20 Aug 2003 08:02:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 7443 invoked from network); 20 Aug 2003 08:02:15 -0000 Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:02:00 +0200 From: Sven Vermeulen To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030820080200.GD1138@gentoo.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <20030819112719.3ff4da41.svyatogor@gentoo.org> <1061309939.28350.6.camel@rivendell> <200308200116.33551.luke-jr@gentoo.org> <200308192352.17354.spyderous@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2iBwrppp/7QCDedR" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200308192352.17354.spyderous@gentoo.org> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.20 X-Telephone: +32 486 460306 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing fdisk with cfdisk in X-Archives-Salt: 1115ab8f-a536-4a55-b91b-6bd4fd64118d X-Archives-Hash: fd5b9c4de299f9a8fc5be676cce59f49 --2iBwrppp/7QCDedR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:52:17PM -0500, donnie berkholz wrote: > I'm pretty sure it was cfdisk that was documented in the installation gui= de=20 > when I installed Gentoo initially, and for the reasons earlier mentioned = re=20 > sloppiness etc it was later changed to fdisk. Foser seems to imply it was= =20 > also fdisk earlier at some point too, so apparently cfdisk was just=20 > documented for a short time. I personally would recommend cfdisk in the= =20 > install guide, and link to a quickie guide of fdisk. My idea is to make t= he=20 > install as easy as possible, and cfdisk is significantly easier to use an= d=20 > more intuitive than fdisk (for me and most people I've talked with about= =20 > this, at least). I have issued a new GLEP regarding the installation manual [1] in which the= re is room to provide the user with information about all possible partitioning ways if we want to. However, even if the GLEP is accepted without clashes it'll still be a while before the Installation Chapter is finished. I hope that the GLEP can shut down this discussion and we can mark the bug = as "LATER". I'm reluctant in changing the installation guide if there is a chance that we are repeating history (i.e. cfdisk showing up to be troublesome afterall). Wkr, Sven Vermeulen PS Discussions about this GLEP should be on gentoo-doc, it is purely documentation related, and far from all documentation developers are on -de= v. I'll start a thread about this GLEP in a minute. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0013.html --=20 Save some animals, eat a vegetarian. --2iBwrppp/7QCDedR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Qyr4Xfqz7M26L9sRAv3oAKCCPPxhGMYY1lBL3PiZs7Y81jQk0ACeJ1Hk QBinrkYRSA8cH/4fo+rIz0c= =KyKR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2iBwrppp/7QCDedR--