On 04/04/2011 05:01 AM, Matthew Gyurgyik wrote:
On 04/04/2011 12:04 AM, Brendan Long wrote:
On 03/27/2011 01:47 AM, KESHAV P.R. wrote:
On a side note, I think it is also useful to have GPT partitioning as default now since it is way superior to MBR (see logical partitions linked-list info) and supports multiple primary partitions. I'm not sure that it's a good idea to make GPT the default any time soon, since most tools don't support it very well yet, and most versions of Windows won't boot of it (much as I hate holding things back for worse operating systems, having a default that makes it impossible to boot Windows seems like a bad idea). Having it available in the installer would be really nice though. Even just including gdisk and syslinux on the install disk would make things a lot easier in some situations. FYI the installer/live installer already includes gptfdisk (gdisk) and syslinux.
I don't believe that "lets worry about windows" is a good argument. If a user is installing arch they should be able to read documentation and determine which is the best for them MBR or GPT. I just booted off a USB stick to make sure, and the current installer[1] doesn't have gdisk (although it does have syslinux, which I didn't realize).