On Tuesday 18 January 2005 00:35, Matthew Miller wrote: >On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 10:56:49PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> install I have no use for. For hda, it was pre-partitioned they >> way I wanted it earlier, but DD didn't act like it could read the >> existing partition table. I know, I stopped, backed out and >> rechecked it with a boot disk that had fdisk on it. The >> partitions > >Ah, okay -- *this* part was due to a bug in the parted library which > bit the FC2 installer. I'm not 100% sure if this was fixed in FC3, > but it definitely will be in FC4. > >> Like I said, its drain bamaged. Unusable, worthless, take it >> away. > >Yes, let's make it so the installer can't deal with disks at all. > Taht'd totally make the OS better. I assume there was supposed to be some sarcasm indicated there. I wasn't trying to be sarcastic, but dead serious in my objections to DD, give me fdisk any day, anytime. It does exactly what you tell it. Trying to dumb the install down to the winderz user level may be an admirable project, but in this regard its a miserable failure. Amanda is hogging the machine and killing me. bye. -- 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.
