[haiku-development] Re: RFC: DriveSetup BikeShed proposal 1
- From: Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 09:38:08 -0700
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 02.08.2012 18:17, Urias McCullough wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 02.08.2012 17:57, Alexander von Gluck wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Partition->Initialize->Intel Extended Partition
>>>
>>> I would just go one step further, and don't show that one at all: let the
>>> partitioning system deal with this internally.
>>
>> I dunno - in the future I'd like the option to choose between MBR and
>> GPT somewhere
>
> I meant the above option particularly. I don't think it's a good idea to
> hide fundamental differences like GPT and MBR from the user.
Oh, sorry - I misread the above... I thought we were discussing the
option to initialze an "Intel Paritition Map"...
Yeah, most other OSes now just let you declare that a partition is
either primary or logical, and you don't have to define the extended
partition first.
- Urias
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