On 09/07/2014, Bzzzz <lazyvi...@gmx.com> wrote: <snip>
> > BTW, sorry to hijack a bit this thread, but what could > be the advantages to use UEFI (I just have Debian on my > laptop and disabled it from ancient posts I read). > Hello. It is my understanding (and, once again, I am no expert), that two distinct advantages of a UEFI/GPT system ofer what it replaced, are that no differentiation exists, between primary and other partitions, and, a UEFI/GPT system, can have up to 128 partitions. Now, apart from the bog-horrible MS Windows 8, which I found simply too difficult to be able to use, taking up at least three partitions (with MS Windows 7 etc, taking up at least 3 primary partitions, on the systems before UEFI/GPT), from memory, in the primary partitions, creating an extended partition, in which to create the logical partitions to instal Debian, and / or other Linux distributions, with the associated logical partitions (/ , /home , /swap , /usr, /var, etc (for people who set them all up as separate partitions) ) used in itself, a primary partition, so that a dual or multiple boot system with MS Windows and Linux, used all four primary partitions. Then, if a person wanted to instal a version of UNIX, such as a version of BSD, a primary partition was required, so that a system administrator, if retaining an MS Windows installation on a system, could instal either Linux, or, a version of UNIX, but, not Linux and one or more versions of UNIX, and, not more than one version of UNIX, if UNIX was to be preferred over Linux. Now, with FreeBSD, and, following that, PC-BSD, which is based on FreeBSD, and, is a workstation form of BSD, from version 10.0 onward (PC-BSD is now at version 10.0.2 - see http://www.pcbsd.org/), compatibility with the UEFI/GPT systems was supposedly included, thus eliminating the need for a pimary partition installation, so that a system administrator could supposedly have MS Windows (>= v8) installed on a system, and, instal one or more Linux distributions, and, one (or more? - of this, I am not sure) versions of UNIX, eg PC-BSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, etc, without needing to worry about installing the UNIX versions in the limited (maxium of 4) number of primary partitions. Now, as an example, on this (pre-UEFI/GPT) computer, I have MS Windows 7, Ubuntu 10.04, and, Debian 6, installed, but I could not also instal PC-BSD. However, on a UEFI/GPT system, that I have, I have MS Windows 8 installed (but unusable), and, I added Debian 7.5, and, have tried to instal PC-BSD 10.02, which is allowed on that system, due to the UEFI/GPT. I am awaiting resolution of an installation problem regarding the PC-BSD. That is my understanding of an advantage of the UEFI/GPT systems, over what they replaced, anyway, in that 1) they allow for up to 128 partitions, all being the equivalent of primary partitions, and, thence 2) they allow for multiple boot systems that include a version of UNIX in addition to a distribution (or, more than one) of Linux, in addition to the dreadful MS Windows 8. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 .................................................... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cacx6j8nxtuc_kggbhwp+6-oa1juvt975k2xg5ej_xk1nrbo...@mail.gmail.com
