Bug 74839

Summary:	PPC Handbook is very unclear on partitioning
Product:	[OLD] Docs-user	Reporter:	Thomas Tuttle <gentoobugzilla.thinkinginbinary>
Component:	Handbook	Assignee:	Docs Team <docs-team>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	PPC
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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