On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 08:31:23PM -0600, Jeff Vian wrote: > 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. > It's very easy to uncheck the disks where you don't want a given partition to end up. Or to force it to be a primary partition. It's also very easy to press ctrl-alt-f2 and get a shell; if that's not working, there's an X bug or something. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
