jan damborsky wrote: > 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. It is not that we can't create other type of partitions. We need to make sure that it is usable. We found that the FAT16 and FAT32 partitions created by SXDE installer were not usable.
Thanks, Sundar > > Jan >
