On Monday 17 January 2005 18:40, Emmanuel Seyman wrote: >On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 10:45:56AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Except for DD's insistance on re-arranging partitions. I've had >> enough headaches and screwed up installs that DD will never touch >> another disk of mine, ever. > >I have no idea which Disk Druid you're using but it obviously isn't >the one shipped with Fedora's installation program. > Precisely the one thats on the bootable install cd #1 of FC3RC3. I even came up here to this machine and looked up the keyboard sequence that is *supposed* to get me another shell, ctl+alt+F2 I think it was, but didn't work. The SOB was gonna do it its way or else. Yes, I now have the full FC3 disk set, but thats exactly why its not installed on any machine here. I've got way too much history here on this machine that doesn't need formatted away. And if you don't click on anything but the proceed/next button, it won't let you pass without setting something up, at which point I setup the swap on /dev/hdb. Then it would proceed, and it proceeded to format everything in sight and move the partitions around at random. Tell ya what, I've got the freedom plan, so the next time I go to fool with trying to install FC3 someplace, give me your phone number and we'll do it your way & we'll see who's the expert at running Disk Druid. If thats not suitable, then at least listen to the bitches of a user who has been screwed over by it twice now and do something about it, like give us a choice of which tool to use. I'd like to think I have smarts enough to use fdisk after a decades experience. >I've installed (from scratch) all the Fedoras one after the other >on the same computer. In all cases, DD only formated the partitions >I told it to partition ( the / and swap partitions) and left the >others (a partition I mount on /media/data and /home) intact. > >> To the redhat/fedora packagers: Please, please, please give us >> back fdisk, its not broken like DD, and it doesn't decide to >> format your /home or /root partitions and use them for / in the >> next incarnation. > >If you prefer fdisk, then just use that instead of DD. See above, how, when you cannot get another screen to do it in? I've tried, mightily, repeatedly, and failed everytime. >Emmanuel -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.32% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
