On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 01:56:07PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I just installed Fedora-2 on a new machine, > and found Disk Druid quite useless at partitioning the machine. > > I admit that the Windows partitioning was odd, to say the least. > There was a 64GB NTFS first partition, > while the second partition was "Windows 95 Extended" > with a 4MB VFAT partition inside. > The disk is 250GB, so this leaves a lot of space. > > First I opted for "automatic partitioning" > but this bombed out with a rather useless error message, > so I was forced to use Disk Druid. > This simply refused to accept anything I suggested. > > So I put in a Knoppix CD, and partitioned with fdisk. > > I really wish the fdisk option was still offered > as an alternative to Disk Druid. > It is offered but you have to know the trick. Just before you are about to go to disk druid hit ALT-CTL-F1 (might be F2). This puts you into a shell where you can run fdisk. Then I think one does ALT-CTL-F7 and you are back in the anaconda. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
