On Monday 17 January 2005 23:27, Matthew Miller wrote: >On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 05:53:33PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >Why are you telling it to do that? >> >> Thats exactly my point, when I last looked at the display it was >> setup the way I wanted it, but when it came time to do the >> install, it bombed because the usr was full in about 20 packages. >> Thats when I found, for the second time that it has a mind of its >> own. I found a > >I've never, ever seen it do this. However, I don't doubt that > something could go wrong; did you file a bugzilla request? I may have at the time, but I was so pissed it probably self destructed on the way to non volatile storage. >Also, when you created the partitions, did you check the appropriate >restrictions (size, primary-only, which disks you wanted)? If not, > why not? Yes, they were all setup, and previously loaded with an FC2 install. >> Until it does EXACTLY what the user wants it to, to any number of >> disks available on a system, (thats its first achilles heel, it >> can only deal with one hard drive, not enough smarts to handle 2 >> or more) > >That's not true. It works fine with multiple hard drives. I do it > all of the time. Someone is going to have to prove it to me, in person, before it ever runs on a disk I own again. I buy or build tools to do the job at hand, and if the tool I bought or built to do the job won't it goes back or in the trash heap depending on the cost. Since DD is free, then the trash is the obvious place for it, there are far better tools to do that job. Hell, wnen I was running an amiga, there were plenty of miss-written disk partitioning tools around then, but the only one that actually worked right was one that Joanne Dow wrote, she was the only person amoung about 2 dozen that *thought* they knew something about drives that actually knew what it was all about. All the rest were running around in a fog of self-aggrandisement (the I'm an engineer and you're a peon attitude) that said they could do no wrong. Hell, most of them never understood that a scsi bus is a transmission line and had to be terminated! Did you ever find a trumpcard that had the terms in right side up? The pcb artwork was bass-ackwards. Or is that before your time? Only if I've been there already and turned them around, I guarantee it. And I only did 2 of them, the pcb itself is a not over half oz of copper piece of crap. After the first one, I just did cut & pastes with wire wrap to fix it, about half an hour faster & lots less damage from a 550-600 degree regulated iron than trying to pull 3 of those resistor packs and turn them end for end. -- 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.
