On Wednesday 09 July 2014 19.49:12 Bret Busby wrote: > 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.
I don't know how many partitions I can create without UEFI/GPT, but the only limitation I ran into was that of *primary* partitions > Now, (...) with MS Windows 7 etc, taking up at least 3 primary partitions, > on the systems before UEFI/GPT)(...) Then, if a person wanted to instal a > version of UNIX, such as a version of BSD, a primary partition was required Well, that's anything but a standard situation. I've only used GPT for Hackintoshes, I stopped using Windows in 1992 (yep, windows 3.0) and I can't figure out why I would install another *nix-like system (except for fun and discovery, but I have enough older computers around to dedicate one to this sort of trial. Any OS that *requires* a primary partition to install is badly coded, or old (or both...). So this for me sums up the question: if your computer is to run linux only (as was the OP's), there is no reason to use UEFI/GPT but for the need for partitions over 2 TB. For complex setups, it may be of interrest. Thierry -- 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/201407092213.21617.tcou...@decoulon.ch
