On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:46 PM, lee <l...@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote: > Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Ma, 18 sep 12, 19:24:45, lee wrote: >>> >>> > 2) Is "msdos" a valid option to choose for this hard drive? >>> >>> Is "msdos" a useful partition type for you? Try "Linux", and if it >>> works, you can try to change it to msdos. >> >> Partition *table*, not *type* ;) > > Are you sure there is such a thing as an "msdos" partition table? There > seem to be a couple types of partition tables, and "msdos" doesn't seem > to be amongst them[1]. Then there are "partition types" and "partition > type codes", see [2]. > > The OP probably refers to the "partition type code", more commonly > referred to as partition type. IIRC fdisk does that. If it does, > perhaps we should file a bug against fdisk to have that changed to > "partition type code"?
d-i refers to an msdos partition table. fdisk refers to a dos partition table. You can choose from a few different partition tables in d-i. The only other that I remember, that I've used, and that I prefer is gpt. In fdisk, you can only choose dos (you can also choose a bsd label but I think that it's in addition to dos but might be wrong...). In gdisk, you can choose gpt. AFAIK, there are more options in parted. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=sxxydjz0kz8+tpsxoicub_offgk-6zbawfakhak0uu...@mail.gmail.com
