On 14 Aug 2001, Falk Hueffner wrote: > the Debian installation manual says: > > "Another conventional requirement is for the `a' partition to start > from the beginning of the disk, so that it always includes the boot > block with the disk label." > > I'm not sure about this paragraph. If I start it from the very > beginning of the disk, I'd destroy the partition table when putting a > file system on it. Also, it'd conflict with aboot. Is this supposed to > be a dummy entry? If so, we should clarify it, and add a size > suggestion (say, 5mb).
You're correct -- the installation manual is wrong for Alpha in this regard. I'm not sure about the size suggestion, though (I would actually go with a 2 sector pad, personally). Chances are, that sentence is a hold-over from the MILO-only times, btw, when the padding wasn't needed. C
