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| author | Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> | 2010-09-18 12:26:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org> | 2010-09-18 12:26:37 +0000 |
| commit | 64a455a1fe4c67df1abe0739f8954c7293e1760a (patch) | |
| tree | cc6434df8dfec2b2e9ef961aec0e75b993fc728a /nl/partitioning | |
| parent | bfb4f88a51f3ce60a73e1e9e14d6da1415c30342 (diff) | |
| download | installation-guide-64a455a1fe4c67df1abe0739f8954c7293e1760a.zip | |
Fix "partitioning" part for non-Linux ports.
Diffstat (limited to 'nl/partitioning')
| -rw-r--r-- | nl/partitioning/partition-programs.xml | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | nl/partitioning/partition/x86.xml | 8 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/nl/partitioning/partition-programs.xml b/nl/partitioning/partition-programs.xml index 86b0e9259..e3850e538 100644 --- a/nl/partitioning/partition-programs.xml +++ b/nl/partitioning/partition-programs.xml @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ your architecture. Recommended partitioning tool in Debian. This Swiss army knife can also resize partitions, create filesystems -<phrase arch="x86"> (<quote>format</quote> in Windows speak)</phrase> +<phrase arch="any-x86"> (<quote>format</quote> in Windows speak)</phrase> and assign them to the mountpoints. </para></listitem> diff --git a/nl/partitioning/partition/x86.xml b/nl/partitioning/partition/x86.xml index 4f1751b5c..0ab228c34 100644 --- a/nl/partitioning/partition/x86.xml +++ b/nl/partitioning/partition/x86.xml @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ partitions. You can create up to 60 logical partitions per extended partition; however, you can only have one extended partition per drive. -</para><para> +</para><para arch="linux-any"> Linux limits the partitions per drive to 15 partitions for SCSI disks (3 usable primary partitions, 12 logical partitions), and 63 @@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ kernel from the disk into RAM. If the BIOS int 0x13 large disk access extensions are found to be present, they will be utilized. Otherwise, the legacy disk access interface is used as a fall-back, and it cannot be used to address any location on the disk higher than the 1023rd -cylinder. Once Linux is booted, no matter what BIOS your computer -has, these restrictions no longer apply, since Linux does not use the +cylinder. Once &arch-kernel; is booted, no matter what BIOS your computer +has, these restrictions no longer apply, since &arch-kernel; does not use the BIOS for disk access. </para><para> @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ should suffice) partition at the beginning of the disk to be used as the boot partition, and then create whatever other partitions you wish to have, in the remaining area. This boot partition <emphasis>must</emphasis> be mounted on <filename>/boot</filename>, -since that is the directory where the Linux kernel(s) will be stored. +since that is the directory where the &arch-kernel; kernel(s) will be stored. This configuration will work on any system, regardless of whether LBA or large disk CHS translation is used, and regardless of whether your BIOS supports the large disk access extensions. |