On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 00:40 +0100, 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.
Gene is not the only one to have problems. I have had it rearrange partitions, but NEVER on a prepartitioned disk which is what you used, and what is given by using fdisk to create the partition before defining the mount points with disk druid.
I tossed all partitions except swap, /ORACLE and /ORACLE/DATA when I installed FC3. All of the partitions that I added back appeared where I expected them. Oh, I do have four Windows FAT32 partitions.
On an unpartitioned disk it chooses where the partition goes. If there
are more than one disk it by default chooses both (or all) disks as the
possible targets. If you create say 5 partitons and you build them in
the order you want them placed IT chooses the order (and drive) it feels
is best for creating them. So what you thought was hda2 may actually
become hdb3, etc.
This may be desirable. However, it can and does become frustrating.
Gene's comment was related to creating partitions, not reinstalling on
existing partitions.
So was mine.
James McKenzie
