RFC: Changing default partition type for linux/ppc

Ethan Benson erbenson at alaska.net
Sat Jul 8 15:16:07 EST 2000


On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 06:14:09PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> 
> So can we get all distributions to agree on this partition type scheme?
> IIRC Debian currently relies on the Apple_Unix_SVR2 type, and ignores
> everything else for the purpose of installing or creating swap space. I'd
> like to update the Debian version of pdisk to recognize types used by
> other distributions if possible.

this would certainly have to wait for woody... 

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