On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Oskar Liljeblad wrote: > On Friday, February 21, 2003 at 15:00, Matt Kraai wrote: > > > > > The fix is either to tell the user that there are no partitions, > > > or (IMHO the preferred way for experts) allow the user to create > > > a file system on the whole disk. Theoretical (untested) fix > > > below. > > > > Why would you prefer not to partition the drive? > > IMHO the PC partition table format is obscure and a remnant of > the past. If you plan on using all of the hard drive space for > storage you won't need partitions either. I've been using > several secondary hard drives (for storage only) without > partition tables for quite some time now. > > Seriously though, is this idea stupid?
I think it reasonable for removable media such as MO disks; the format is called "superfloppy." For regular fixed disks, I think it more likely than not to cause confusion, and any saving of disk space is hardly significant. > Am I the only one who does this? > > I don't know if it is possible to boot from a hard drive without > a partition table on PC platforms. If there isn't there is no > point whatsoever in allowing users to install debian on > a hard drive without partitions. I have installed LILO in both MBR and partitions, sometimes on the same system. It works well, and I expect GRUB to do so too. I think if a superfloppy formt disk doesn't boot, a bug report is in order. OTOH the maintainer might respond, "unsupported.";-} -- Cheers John Summerfield -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
