Sundar Yamunachari wrote:
> Dave Miner wrote:
>   
>> Sundar Yamunachari wrote:
>>     
>>> William,
>>>
>>> William Schumann wrote:
>>> ...
>>>       
>>>>             -require Solaris2 only or support creation of other 
>>>> partition types
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>> Installer should  create only Solaris partitions. We should have a 
>>> separate tool to create partitions of other type.
>>>       
>> I believe it would be a very small amount of additional work to 
>> include the functionality to create non-Solaris partitions.  If that's 
>> not true, then please educate me, but if it is, then I would like to 
>> just go ahead and do that.  It's a nice convenience in AI.
>>
>> Dave
>>     
> We used to create FAT 16 and FAT 32 with old installer but those 
> partitions were not usable. So we removes the functionality from the GUI 
> when we implemented the Dwarf Caiman. If the effort is small, I don't 
> have an issue.
>   

Current implementation of Target Instantiation is flexible in this point,
it is only limited by what 'fdisk -F' allows - it can create partition with
any ID.

Jan


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