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Bug 74839 - PPC Handbook is very unclear on partitioning
Summary: PPC Handbook is very unclear on partitioning
Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Alias: None
Product: [OLD] Docs-user
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Handbook (show other bugs)
Hardware: PPC Linux
: High minor (vote)
Assignee: Docs Team
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Reported: 2004-12-18 08:13 UTC by Thomas Tuttle
Modified: 2005-01-17 01:59 UTC (History)
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Description Thomas Tuttle 2004-12-18 08:13:20 UTC
The Gentoo PPC Handbook has a very unclear section on partitioning hard drives.  While the x86 one is quite clear about what partitions are required for the bootloader and such, the PPC one has a very confusing diagram.  Obviously there are different requirements for partitioning on the PPC architecture than the x86 (apparently it requires a separate "partition table" partition, and there are 'special' Apple partitions that you can't delete with the partition editor [wTF?]) but the handbook neglects to explain this.  It needs an extra paragraph or two inserted at the top of the section explaining how partitioning works on the PPC architecture.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Lars Weiler (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-12-18 08:23:12 UTC
The tabular is quite easy to understand.  Also the describing text.  Where are your special problems?  Can you make suggestions for an alternate text?
Comment 2 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-01-17 01:59:51 UTC
Timeout