On Tuesday 18 January 2005 00:27, Matthew Miller wrote: >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. That doesn't work, or didn't work at FC3RC3, and I'm getting tired of repeating it. All you get is a blank screen. Whats so hard to understand about that? > >-- >Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx > <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> > <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- 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.
