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several changes for doc/USER in parted-1.4.9-pre1
From: |
OKUJI Yoshinori |
Subject: |
several changes for doc/USER in parted-1.4.9-pre1 |
Date: |
Sat, 10 Feb 2001 11:37:56 +0900 |
I attach a patch for doc/USER in parted-1.4.9-pre1. The changes are
what I found when translating it into Japanese. Most of them are
cosmetic, but some are important. I explain why I changed only about
what I don't think are cosmetic.
- Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 1999, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Because "Information For Mainatainers of GNU Software" says that you
shouldn't use a range.
- * Linux >= 2.2.x (Alpha, x86 PCs, PC98 and Macintosh PowerPC)
+ * Linux >= 2.2.x (Alpha, x86 PCs, PC98, Macintosh PowerPC and Sun)
Sun is now supported, isn't it?
-loader (i.e. re-running the boot-load installer program, which usually
-involves issuing a single command at the shell) Not all boot loaders require
-this.
+loader (i.e. re-running the installer program for the boot loader, which
+usually involves issuing a single command at the shell). Not all boot loaders
+require this.
I don't think your wording is common.
GRUB is a relatively new boot loader, for x86. Depending on how GRUB is
-installed, it may understand the filesystem, or simply remember where the boot
-files are stored. It understands the filesystem if it's using "Stage1.5". If
-it's not using Stage1.5, then you need to reinstall Stage2 (please see the GRUB
-documentation). Otherwise, you don't need to do anything.
+installed, it may understand the file system, or simply remember where the boot
+files are stored. It understands the file system if it's using "Stage 1.5".
+If it's not using Stage 1.5 or the partition number changes, then you need to
+reinstall Stage 2 (please see the GRUB documentation). Otherwise, you don't
+need to do anything.
GRUB automatically detects if LBA is available, and will use it if
-necessary (equivalent to LILO's "lba32" option).
+available (equivalent to LILO's "lba32" option).
Because Stage 1.5 remembers the number of the partition in which Stage
2 resides, it is necessary to reinstall GRUB, if the user changes the
minor number. So I added information on this. And, GRUB uses LBA, if
available but not if necessary, so I changed the sentense. FYI, all
boot loaders which I know use LBA if necessary are NetBSD's and
OpenBSD's. The same thing may be applied to FreeBSD's, but I'm not sure.
- FreeBSD commonly uses a partition slice system, that isn't supported
-by Parted (yet).
+ FreeBSD commonly uses a partition slice system, that is supported
+with bsd disk label in Parted. If you create a new disk label for FreeBSD,
+you should use:
+
+ (parted) mklabel bsd
Parted now supports bsd disk labels, doesn't it?
Another thing: for now, the boot disk image is named "partboot.img",
but I think it would be better to rename it "partboot.pc.img" or
similar, so someone can put boot images for other
architectures. Personally, I wish that someone could make an image for
UltraSparc... :)
Okuji
USER.diff.gz
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- several changes for doc/USER in parted-1.4.9-pre1,
OKUJI Yoshinori <=