Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (67 mails)

[Gerald Pfeifer <gp@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
> GPT disk-labels (partition tables) are a new type of disk-labels that 
> don't have the limitations of the ms-dos partition table.

It's not that new; we've been supporting it on Itanium for a couple of
years IIRC.

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
> SLES9 kind of cries for a SP4.  I could not use SLES10, although I 
> would've liked that much more.

Your cry has been heard.  Expect this in Q4 2007, and (hopefully) not too 
close to Christmas.  GPT support for x86/x86-64 is not planned for the SP4 
release, but we certainly want to integrate full support into openSUSE as 
soon as possible.  Contributions always welcome. ;-)

Gerald
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