On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Harry Putnam wrote: > During an install in Graphic mode, at the part where you get to disk > druid assuming you've opted to do it manually. I see no possibility > of making an extended partition. Further in the help section there > is no mention that user can get to a shell prompt and use fdisk. You can do <ctrl><alt><f2> to get to a shell prompt and run fdisk. They dumbed this down b/c too many newbies were getting confused. It falls into the category of too many knobs to twist confuses people. It used to be documented somewhere but I no longer remember where. I just know it works. :-) HTH, .....Tom