Re: Not really OffTopic - was {Re: Fedora has a boot option that forces the installer to recognize a drive as GPT, can this be added to Ubiquity/Debian?}

2017-11-06 Thread Michael Stone
On November 6, 2017 7:12:37 PM EST, Richard Owlett wrote: >Why isn't query by user of a derivative [Ununtu] ask parent distro >[Debian] suggest a feature. Because ubuntu has its own installer. Since an end user typically doesn't know what parts of a derivative are straight

Re: Not really OffTopic - was {Re: Fedora has a boot option that forces the installer to recognize a drive as GPT, can this be added to Ubiquity/Debian?}

2017-11-06 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 06 Nov 2017, Richard Owlett wrote: > Why isn't query by user of a derivative [Ununtu] ask parent distro [Debian] > suggest a feature. Ubuntu uses Ubiquity. Debian does not. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Cheop's Law: Nothing ever gets built on

Not really OffTopic - was {Re: Fedora has a boot option that forces the installer to recognize a drive as GPT, can this be added to Ubiquity/Debian?}

2017-11-06 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/06/2017 03:26 PM, David Wright wrote: (Copied to the OP.) On Mon 06 Nov 2017 at 20:34:38 (+), Tom Furie wrote: On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 08:04:40PM +, Indo Neh wrote: There is a boot option in Fedora 'inst.gpt' which forces the Fedora 26 Could this somehow be added to Ubiquity

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

2017-11-06 Thread David Wright
(Copied to the OP.) On Mon 06 Nov 2017 at 20:34:38 (+), Tom Furie wrote: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 08:04:40PM +, Indo Neh wrote: > > There is a boot option in Fedora 'inst.gpt' which forces the Fedora 26 > > > Could this somehow be added to Ubiquity as this option is useful for anyone >

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

2017-11-06 Thread Tom Furie
On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 08:04:40PM +, Indo Neh wrote: > There is a boot option in Fedora 'inst.gpt' which forces the Fedora 26 > Could this somehow be added to Ubiquity as this option is useful for anyone Wasn't the reply you received yesterday sufficient? You'll get on a lot better if you

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