Re: Fedora has a boot option that forces the installer to recognize a drive as GPT, can this be added to Debian?

2017-11-07 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 07:23:42AM +, Indo Neh wrote: > >Could this somehow be added to the Debian installer as this option is >useful for anyone who wants to set up a drive on a BIOS-based system as a >GPT drive without having to manually partition the drive after manually >

Re: Fedora has a boot option that forces the installer to recognize a drive as GPT, can this be added to Debian?

2017-11-07 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 07:23:42AM +, Indo Neh wrote: > Could this somehow be added to the Debian installer as this option is > I didn't realise people would get so stuck on names, by the 2nd email it > should have been obvious I meant this about Debian not Ubuntu. In your 2nd email you

Fedora has a boot option that forces the installer to recognize a drive as GPT, can this be added to Debian?

2017-11-06 Thread Indo Neh
There is a boot option in Fedora 'inst.gpt' which forces the Fedora 26 Anaconda installer to recognize a drive as a GPT drive for the purposes of the Anaconda installer setting up the drive with a GPT partition table. https://rhinstaller.github.io/anaconda/boot-options.html#inst-gpt Could this