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+  <sect2 arch="alpha"><title>Partitioning for &arch-title;</title>
+<para>
+
+If you have chosen to boot from the SRM console, you must use
+<command>fdisk</command> to partition your disk, as it is the only
+partitioning program that can manipulate the BSD disk labels required
+by <command>aboot</command> (remember, the SRM boot block is
+incompatible with MS-DOS partition tables - see 
+<xref linkend="alpha-firmware"/>).
+<command>debian-installer</command> will run <command>fdisk</command>
+by default if you have not booted from <command>MILO</command>.
+
+</para><para>
+
+If the disk that you have selected for partitioning already contains a
+BSD disk label, <command>fdisk</command> will default to BSD disk
+label mode.  Otherwise, you must use the `b' command to enter disk
+label mode.
+
+</para><para>
+
+Unless you wish to use the disk you are partitioning from Tru64 Unix
+or one of the free 4.4BSD-Lite derived operating systems (FreeBSD,
+OpenBSD, or NetBSD), it is suggested that you do
+<emphasis>not</emphasis> make the third partition contain the whole
+disk.  This is not required by <command>aboot</command>, and in fact,
+it may lead to confusion since the <command>swriteboot</command>
+utility used to install <command>aboot</command> in the boot sector
+will complain about a partition overlapping with the boot block.
+
+</para><para>
+
+Also, because <command>aboot</command> is written to the first few
+sectors of the disk (currently it occupies about 70 kilobytes, or 150
+sectors), you <emphasis>must</emphasis> leave enough empty space at
+the beginning of the disk for it.  In the past, it was suggested that
+you make a small partition at the beginning of the disk, to be left
+unformatted.  For the same reason mentioned above, we now suggest that
+you do not do this on disks that will only be used by GNU/Linux.
+
+</para><para>
+
+For ARC installations, you should make a small FAT partition at the
+beginning of the disk to contain <command>MILO</command> and
+<command>linload.exe</command> - 5 megabytes should be sufficient, see
+<xref linkend="non-debian-partitioning"/>. Unfortunately, making FAT
+file systems from the menu is not yet supported, so you'll have to do
+it manually from the shell using <command>mkdosfs</command> before
+attempting to install the boot loader.
+
+</para>
+  </sect2>
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