On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 01:55:17PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Disk Druid is a dreadful program. > Why has the choice of fdisk disappeared? > I read that one could bring up bash (and so run fdisk) > by Alt-F2 when asked to choose > between automatic partitioning and Disk Druid (what a choice!) > but that did not work for me. It's Control-Alt-F2 if you are in X (graphical install). It works best to go there when the installer displays the screen where you can choose between automatical partitioning and Disk Druid. Make your changed in fdisk, and close fdisk before switching back to the installer (control-alt-f7 if using the graphical installer, control-alt-f1 otherwise) and then use Disk Druid for the final step of associating mount points with the partitions you created in fdisk and indicating which ones to format. > > I wanted to re-organise my partitions > while keeping hda1 which has Windows-XP on it. > I couldn't see any way to do this with Disk Druid, > so I had to start Knoppix, and run fdisk under that. Disk Druid should be able to recognize existing partitions and it knows to leave windows partitions alone. Or maybe you ran into a more serious bug, like https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138419 ? > > It seems rather bad to me that one has to run another distribution > in order to install Fedora. > > Maybe I am missing something? > David Jansen
