Installed 32 bit Verne on a 1GB Pentium III system with a 20 GB IDE drive. For some reason the installer decided the drive needed GPT (without mentioning the fact). It then insisted on a bios segment. This is a decade old 20Gb drive!
On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 19:54 -0800, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
Installed 32 bit Verne on a 1GB Pentium III system with a 20 GB IDE drive. For some reason the installer decided the drive needed GPT (without mentioning the fact). It then insisted on a bios segment. This is a decade old 20Gb drive!
Yes? GPT is the default for F16, it's not a question of 'need' or not. This isn't a decision made on the basis of how old or new or big or small the disk is. All newly-formatted disks are formatted to GPT (except on Lenovos).
Will this cause a problem with other systems on the same HD such as FreeDOS or MSDOS 6.22 etc.??
On 11/09/2011 08:07 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 19:54 -0800, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
Installed 32 bit Verne on a 1GB Pentium III system with a 20 GB IDE drive. For some reason the installer decided the drive needed GPT (without mentioning the fact). It then insisted on a bios segment. This is a decade old 20Gb drive!
Yes? GPT is the default for F16, it's not a question of 'need' or not. This isn't a decision made on the basis of how old or new or big or small the disk is. All newly-formatted disks are formatted to GPT (except on Lenovos).
On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 20:26 -0800, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
Will this cause a problem with other systems on the same HD such as FreeDOS or MSDOS 6.22 etc.??
Probably. DOS itself is likely a write-off by now, but there's no intrinsic reason FreeDOS can't support GPT disks; there was some discussion of it on their lists last year:
http://www.mail-archive.com/freedos-devel% 40lists.sourceforge.net/msg07282.html
if you really want to use MS-DOS labelling still, you can pass the 'nogpt' parameter to anaconda.