On Wed 01 Nov, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> I understand how msdos partition tables work now, its just a bunch of
> ugly hacks to make use of legacy structures that are long obsolete.
>
> msdos partitions need to be supported for machines that need microsoft
> compatability (and other OS's ?), but i th
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 05:53:13PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> In Sun, 05 Nov 2000 23:14:16 +1100 Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum
>veritate scripsit :
>
> > > > I understand how msdos partition tables work now, its just a bunch of
> > > > ugly hacks to make use of legacy structures that
Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > On a PC, BIOS needs to be able to read it first, before anything else.
> >
> > regards,
> > junichi
> >
>
> Are you sure ?
>
> I can understand that this would be the case for OS's that use the boot
> indicator flag
Is this i386 specific topic ?
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on Tue, 07 Nov 2000 10:19:17 +1100,
on Re: debinst: non-msdos partition table creation support,
Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> >
> > Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PRO
Junichi Uekawa wrote:
>
> In Sun, 05 Nov 2000 23:14:16 +1100 Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum
>veritate scripsit :
>
> > > > I understand how msdos partition tables work now, its just a bunch of
> > > > ugly hacks to make use of legacy structures that are long obsolete.
> > > >
> > > > msd
In Sun, 05 Nov 2000 23:14:16 +1100 Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cum veritate
scripsit :
> > > I understand how msdos partition tables work now, its just a bunch of
> > > ugly hacks to make use of legacy structures that are long obsolete.
> > >
> > > msdos partitions need to be supported for
Goswin Brederlow wrote:
>
> Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I understand how msdos partition tables work now, its just a bunch of
> > ugly hacks to make use of legacy structures that are long obsolete.
> >
> > msdos partitions need to be supported for machines that need microsoft
Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I understand how msdos partition tables work now, its just a bunch of
> ugly hacks to make use of legacy structures that are long obsolete.
>
> msdos partitions need to be supported for machines that need microsoft
> compatability (and other OS's ?), b
I understand how msdos partition tables work now, its just a bunch of
ugly hacks to make use of legacy structures that are long obsolete.
msdos partitions need to be supported for machines that need microsoft
compatability (and other OS's ?), but i think that we should provided
users the ability
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