Re: Install Fails w/Non-Partitioned Disk

["Dan O'Reilly" <dano process com>]

At 06:04 PM 6/10/99 -0500, Wes Bauske wrote:
>Dan O'Reilly wrote:
>> 
>> I've discovered after much trial and error, that a Redhat (5.2 or 6.0)
>> install fails if I attempt to install it on a system that has at least
>> one disk in it that doesn't have a PC-style partition table on it.
>> 
>
>Don't think so. My XP1000 has ONLY BSD style labels and
>installed RH5.2 and RH6.0 just fine. Exactly what sort
>of partition table do VMS disks have??

They don't.  To VMS, a disk is one huge "partition", if you will; but
the idea of a "partition" doesn't exist in VMS (save for some special
device drivers).  If you have a 2.1gb disk, you have 2.1gb of storage
in one logical device.  There's no partition table like many other systems
use.

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