Ben Steeves wrote:
On Sat, 2004-12-06 at 11:46 -0600, Reg Clemens wrote:IMO "imposed" is not a harsh term, nor inaccurate.
This is the result of using Disk Druid to partition the disk, and itsOn Sat, 12 Jun 2004 16:22:09 +1000, Matt Rex wrote:
I have a disk with the partitions out of order. i.e. hda5 is before hda4. Is this a problem? Is it possible to change the order?
the reason I constantly complain about this piece of software that
RedHat has impoesed on us.
"Imposed" is rather harsh, and inaccurate. During the install you can
switch to the console and invoke fdisk manually.
Thru RH8 you had a choice of fdisk or disk druid from the gui.
in RH9 and later they removed fdisk from the gui, thus, without jumping thru the hoops of going to the console window in the middle of the install process it is not available until after the install is completed.
It wasn't until about 3 months ago that I (an experienced user) was even aware of the capability to get a console window during an install. What I previously was doing was booting to rescue mode, running fdisk to create the partitions in the order "I" wanted, then restarting the install. This avoided the capricious tendency of disk druid to put partitions in the order it chose rather than the order they were created. Disk druid numbers them in the order created, but places them in often different sequence -- a practice which is confusing at best.
So far, even though I now know the capability for the console is there, I have been unsuccessful in finding that documented anywhere. Newbies have no chance to even know the console access is available.
Thus, the statement by Reg that this is something "imposed" on us is, I feel, 100% accurate. Only the true experts have any way around using disk druid.
