From 471cd34ea4ee6d7fe394845ad0ae002139e31afd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marja van Waes <marja@mageia.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:54:03 +0000
Subject: updated and 2 new English files from Calenco

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                </tr>
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                   <td align="left" valign="top">
-                           
-                     <p>If you have a SSD (Solid State Drive) instead of a hard disk, at
-                              the time this help was written, it was inadvisable to create the
-                              partitions with this tool because they would not be aligned. The SSD
-                              would work but with reduced speed and lifetime. Use a partitioning tool
-                              such as Gparted instead with these partition alignment settings for each
-                              partition :
+                         
+                     <p>Some newer drives are now using 4096 byte logical sectors, instead
+                            of the previous standard of 512 byte logical sectors. Due to lack of
+                            available hardware, the partitioning tool used in the installer has not
+                            been tested with such a drive. Also some ssd drives now use an erase block
+                            size over 1 MB. We suggest to pre-partition the drive, using an
+                            alternative partitioning tool like gparted, if you own such a device, and
+                            to use the following settings: 
                      </p>
                      
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-                     <p>Free space preceding (MiB) : 2</p>
+                         
+                     <p>"Align to" "MiB" </p>
+                     
+                         
+                     <p>"Free space preceding (MiB)" "2" </p>
                      
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-                     <p>Round to cylinders : unchecked</p>
                          
+                     <p>Also make sure all partitions are created with an even number of
+                            megabytes.
+                     </p>
+                       
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             </table>
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