Re: Installer, ISO9660, etc.

[Ludovic Courtès]

Heya,

Danny Milosavljevic <address@hidden> skribis:

> But this "partition?" thing would mean that having a partition table is now 
> mandatory, right?  Is that really supposed to be the case?  The partition 
> table has a magic mark (0x55 0xAA) in order for it *not* to be mandatory 
> (i.e. if you want to use the whole disk without partitioning anything, go 
> right ahead) and I can still remember using (floppy) disks which had no 
> partition table.

‘partition?’ is meant to return true when given a partition, so yes, it
assumes there’s a partition table somewhere.  :-)

In general, I think that’s a reasonable assumption.  Is it really a
problem to always have a partition table?

Ludo’.