The installer can't handle gpt, but DragonFly itself should be able to. You would have to install it manually though and to reduce problems I would use either the linux gpt partitioner or the microsoft one to create the gpt partition for DFly. Definitely non-trivial.
-Matt On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Jacob Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been trying to dual-boot dragonfly, windows and debian. However, > dragonfly's installer does not appear to see the partition I set up for it. > Below is my partition table for the disk I want to install dragonfly on > as reported by parted in debian: > > Model: ATA ST1000DM003-1CH1 (scsi) > Disk /dev/sdb: 1000GB > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B > Partition Table: gpt > Disk Flags: > > Number Start End Size File system Name > Flags > 1 17.4kB 134MB 134MB Microsoft reserved partition > msftres > 2 135MB 269GB 268GB ntfs Basic data partition > msftdata > 4 269GB 385GB 116GB ext4 j-deb > msftdata > 3 385GB 385GB 99.6MB fat32 efi > boot, esp > 5 385GB 505GB 120GB ext4 > 6 505GB 612GB 107GB > > I set up sdb6 for this and ran the dragonfly 4.4.1 installer. > All dragonfly reported when I tried to install on this disk (da1 in > dragonfly) was > > < 0M - 953869M: EFI DPT > > > No other partitions were available. > > It detected all the partitons on my windows drive (msdos partition > table; sda/da0) just fine. > > A cursory google shows that dragonfly supports GPT. So did I do > something wrong here or can I not install to a GPT-formatted drive? > > -- > Jacob Adams > GPG Key: AF6B 1C26 E2D0 A988 432B 94F4 24C0 2B85 B59F E5A9 > >
