On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 01:19:47PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > 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. I'm assuming this partition was created by Windows? This would be /dev/hda1, correct? > The second partition is a 4GB "Win 95 Extended" partition, This is /dev/hda2? How did you create this partition? > containing a 4GB FAT32 partition. So this would be /dev/hda5? Again, did Windows create this partiton, or was it created some other way? > > DiskDruid would not allow me to use the remaining 180GB for Linux. What do you mean "would not allow"? Do you have an actual error message? > The "automatic" option failed, What do you mean by "failed"? An error message would help. > and when DiskDruid was invoked it refused all choices I made. Did you get error messages? What do you mean by refused? I think this is the kind of stuff Doncho was referring to when he said you weren't being specific. Also I imagine a cut and paste from fdisk showing the partition boundaries would help. Although I've used Disk Druid without problem, I think traffic on the list shows it has problems. It might be worth looking for it in bugzilla and adding your data. This information is valuable. I very much agree fdisk should still be an option on a menu for partitioning (maybe with suitable warnings against using it if you don't know what you're doing). I'm much more comfortable with fdisk than disk druid. I know how to escape out of X to get to a virtual console, but I don't know that it would occur to me to do that during an install (at least not right away).
