Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1jeffry s wrote:i am also wondering what all those partition type mean. can anyone point any documentation about the difference of amiga, bsd, dvh, gpt, mac, msdos, pc98, s390, sun, loop?It's just a different format of how the start of your hard disk is organized. I don't know about particular differences. If you can't find it on google, it is probably so obscure that you won't ever need it. Look at the article in wikipedia on partition types. You only need a different partition type than the default, if you have an other OS on the same hard disk that doesn't understand the default
Is this the whole story? I would have thought that the base hardware would also have something to do with it.
For example, the BSD OS versions designed to work on Intel architecture would need to have disk partitioning that the BIOS could work with, just as for msdos. And modern PC BIOS support for gpt is becoming common, too.
But, a disk that is fully mac oriented, for example, could not just plug in to a PC system and boot. The system would recognize the disk as available, but would not be able to do anything with it, as the partitioning is totally foreign (though, with the Intel Macs, this may no longer be completely true).
But when you say amiga or s390, I'd think you were explicitly loading an amiga or s390 version of an OS (which could be Linux) on Amiga or S390 hardware. The basic hardware and it's equivalent of a BIOS would then dictate the partition type to use.
msdos. You should check the documentation of all your other OSes to find a partition type that is supported by all of them. It's good to know that debian also supports obscure stuff :-) Johannes -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGZlZSC1NzPRl9qEURAl6UAJwPZLa1+0ePigtrysD76vP1ECVEUACfTYDQ WcZ+eexljs/nOmD4pTs39Y4= =DfpO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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