Sysinstall's fdisk/disklabel should be improved

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Monday 27 October 2003 04:28, Ulrich Spoerlein wrote:
> First of all, the Partition Editor has the 'A' option to use all of the
> available HDD space. It creates a DOS-compatible slice (starting at
> sector 63 and ending on cylinder boundary). This is completely useless
> on servers and the help menu says that sysinstall will ask if it should
> create a DOS-compatible slice or not. However no such question is ever
> asked.

Err..
What's wrong with it?
Surely DOS compatible is fine?!

The documentation is probably out of date, but it still works and partitions 
your disk just fine. (It partitions mine just fine for a huge variety of 
machines)

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