[clue-tech] Installfest hot wash.

[Jed S. Baer]

On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 21:14:45 -0700
David L. Anselmi wrote:

> Well, it's a feature of the DOS partition table.  fdisk understands BSD 
> disklabels and can create Sun disklabels.  So you aren't forced to use 
> the DOS style (and I didn't on my old Alpha).

Soooo ....

If I were to partition a HD using a different labelling type, would Linux
install/boot okay?

>   Unless you want Windows to use your disk

Well no. Isn't that the point? ;-)

Sounds like something that'd make a good KISS session. "Say Goodbye to DOS
disk lables!"

jed
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