Bad 10.04 problem

[Dotan Cohen]

> It's nonsense (the primary partition statement not the comment on
> Karl's partition table!). The Ubuntu and Debian default, if you choose
> the most basic automatic setup is to assign sda1 to / and sda5 to swap
> (with sda2 as an extended partition).
>

Nonsense? Thanks.

I don't know how the default installer works, but if you want to
suggest that it always performs best practices then I can find counter
examples. How about being stuck at 86% for no reason to try to
download language packs that are not to be installed anyway?
Furthermore, best practice is a matter of opinion and you are welcome
to value the installer's maintainer's opinion my than my own, however
that does not make my opinion nonsense.

How about you contact the maintainer and ask why he is using extended
partitions instead of primary. The only reason that extended was
invented was to work around the four-partition limit. There is no
other advantage, and certainly not for use when there are less than
four partitions.


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