From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20156 invoked by uid 1002); 23 Aug 2003 09:33:45 -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 31619 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2003 09:33:45 -0000 Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 11:33:22 +0200 From: Sven Vermeulen To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030823093322.GA972@gentoo.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <20030819112719.3ff4da41.svyatogor@gentoo.org> <20030822155743.25c00feb.weeve@gentoo.org> <20030823034604.GA29222%chutz@gg3.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030823034604.GA29222%chutz@gg3.net> 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: 21327f4c-a4f9-48a4-abac-7f250703ee72 X-Archives-Hash: c94765b467ee28ccd51da5a2caa8817b --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 12:46:04PM +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote: > Lastly I am not a sparc user. If parted is better for the sparc, I guess = it > would be better to have parted there, but please, don't screw the x86 CDs. The best solution imho is to provide our users with all possible scenario's. In our current installation guide, this is almost impossible due to limited size (we can't allow the current installation guide to grow further). However, we're working on a Gentoo Handbook in which it should be possible = to provide our users with several implementations. Kinda like 2. Partitioning 2.1 Partitioning with fdisk 2.2 Partitioning with cfdisk 2.3 Partitioning with parted Using this scheme, no tool is favoured above the other (except when you say that "fdisk" is listed before "cfdisk" -- bad luck :)=20 Wkr, Sven Vermeulen --=20 Save some animals, eat a vegetarian. --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/RzTiXfqz7M26L9sRAmTdAKCKwB2dFxU+2gHvzdLDWBmGV0eaMgCfTDmJ IZECbvrsFaee9ciB2a3NyN4= =Lpim -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9--