On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 03:23:58PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > Jiann-Ming Su wrote: > > | I thought Debian's installer used cfdisk. For more info in partitioning > | with fdisk: > | > | http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/partition-5.html > > If by "Debian's installer" you mean "boot floppies on i386" then > that's true. It's never been used on alpha -- boot-floppies used > straight fdisk, and debian-installer uses partman (as it does on most > other architectures).
In fact, if you are on Alpha, you cfdisk will *not* work for the disk that SRM is booting from. It *will* work if you are using AlphaBIOS/MILO, IIRC. -- John > > (boot-floppies is the name of the installer used in woody and previous > distributions. debian-installer is the new installer that will be > used in sarge.) > > Cameron.
