Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): > On Thursday 16 April 2015 12:02:23 David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Gene Heskett (ghesk...@wdtv.com): > > > And one other question: Can the installer deal with a drive that > > > has no partition table on it? I know for a fact that as it stands > > > for wheezy, that it will not accept, even if it can see it, another > > > partitioners partition tables. It absolutely has to write its own > > > table and nothing a human can concoct will ever suit it. Frankly, > > > debian needs to get an alaskan divorce from whatever its called and > > > use gparted and be done with it. > > > > I don't know the expression "alaskan divorce". Could it be where you > > walk from the divorce court straight back to the registry office to > > get re-married? > > Aw gee, that expression is at least 30 years older than the internet! [...] > Told poorly, but that is the classic definition of an Alaskan Divorce.
Well I typed alaskan into urbandictionary but didn't dare click on any of the suggestions below! But my guess was a hint that Debian won't be getting rid of parted just yet. Cheers, David. -- 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/20150416170612.GG8246@alum
