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+ <B>Anne Wilson</B>
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+ <I>Wed Aug 22 17:08:49 CEST 2012</I>
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+On 22/08/12 14:27, blind Pete wrote:
+&gt;<i> Maurice Batey wrote:
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 21:31:56 +0300, Thomas Backlund wrote:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> If you dont need windows 7, then it's probably easier to
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> disable uefi (if you can) and do a &quot;old style&quot; install.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> The only 'UEFI' part of the BIOS Setup is the one I described
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> earlier:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> &quot;UEFI Boot support: 'Enabled': System boots Legacy OS and UEFI
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> OS 'Disabled': System boots Legacy OS only&quot;
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> It is Disabled, but I don't know yet if the drive has GPT or
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> legacy partitioning. So the $64 question is:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> If I ask the Mageia-2 DVD.iso installer to install on this drive,
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> will it only be able to do it if it does *not* have GPT
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> partitions, or - (if I invite it to take over the whole drive)
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> will it be able to install if it is GPT, or - if not - will it be
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> able to format the whole drive as non-GPT and then install?
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I kniow that's a lot of questions, but I hope you can see what
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I'm getting at!
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Put the dvd in the drive and find out.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Recently I installed Mageia 2 onto a PIII with a GPTed disk. The
+</I>&gt;<i> installer only gave the options of reformatting the whole disk or
+</I>&gt;<i> using the partitions already defined. I don't remember whether or
+</I>&gt;<i> not it was a hybrid partition table.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>Until you actually write the partition table to disk (and you are told
+when it is about to do so) you can always back out, so yes, see what
+is offered and make your decision accordingly.
+
+Anne
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