Doncho N. Gunchev wrote: >> I just installed Fedora-2 on a new machine, >> and found Disk Druid quite useless at partitioning the machine. > You don't say anything specific here. I used Disk Druid all the > time and never had so serious problem (only once selecting to format > the free space with FC2) and I do not use standard/simple setups. I think I explained my situation pretty clearly. I have a 240GB disk. The first partition on this is a 60GB NTFS partition. The second partition is a 4GB "Win 95 Extended" partition, containing a 4GB FAT32 partition. DiskDruid would not allow me to use the remaining 180GB for Linux. The "automatic" option failed, and when DiskDruid was invoked it refused all choices I made. Others have explained clearly how I could have invoked fdisk directly, rather than through Knoppix as I did. This is evidently a choice which some people either wish to make or (as in my case) have to make. I am asking that it should be an explicit choice, as it used to be in RedHHat. I don't understand the attraction of DiskDruid. It seems to me inferior in almost every way to fdisk. Where there is an established program which works perfectly well, I don't see the point in suppressing it. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
