Summary: | Replace fdisk with cfdisk in the guide. | ||
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Product: | [OLD] Docs-user | Reporter: | Sergey Kuleshov (RETIRED) <svyatogor> |
Component: | Gentoo Linux x86 Installation Guide | Assignee: | Docs Team <docs-team> |
Status: | VERIFIED LATER | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | avenj, herojoker, mohringarmin, silya |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Sergey Kuleshov (RETIRED)
2003-08-19 01:04:54 UTC
See my -dev post for my comments on this. For the interested, discussion can be followed online on http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/11311 not mentioned on gentoo-dev, but i like cfdisk because (oh no!) it looks like the ms fdisk guy ... it *is* a lot easier to use, fdisk confused the hell out of me ;) There isn't a cfdisk that can handle Sun labels (needed to boot a disk on any Sun box), and I think that the same thing could happen for other archs a well. I prefer to have a similarity on the install docs of the diferent archs, than to have a not so good GUI. On a PPC (Macs) we have only mac-fdisk and parted (yeah, it can handle HFS+ partitons now!). mac-fdisk is like fdisk, but with special commands for the special Apple partitions, that need to be generated. The idea of a "common" partitioning tool wouldn't become true. The only tool that works on quite every system is parted. It also has the ability to shrink partitions and make space for Gentoo Linux. But as far as I see it is still a bit unstable... That's the reason why every arch supports another partitioning tool. And for me it's okay we support fdisk as it is well described and does it's job. With our extremely verbose instructions, most people are able to use it successfully. It's an important skill for advanced users to have. In over a year of helping out on #gentoo, I've noticed that people who have issues with figuring out fdisk while following the install guide are _very_ rare. With the end of the fdisk/cfdisk discussion on gentoo-dev, may I - or svyatogor - mark this bug as LATER (i.e. when the handbook installation chapter is finished)? Then we can rediscuss all, or just add information on cfdisk. As we haven't been able to reach a common opinion on this topic I'm marking this bug as LATER and will reopen it when time comes. *** Bug 124397 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 129555 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Time to close *** Bug 148076 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** |