On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 20:31 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote: > 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. > > > > I've installed (from scratch) all the Fedoras one after the other > > on the same computer. In all cases, DD only formated the partitions > > I told it to partition ( the / and swap partitions) and left the > > others (a partition I mount on /media/data and /home) intact. > > > > > To the redhat/fedora packagers: Please, please, please give us back > > > fdisk, its not broken like DD, and it doesn't decide to format > > > your /home or /root partitions and use them for / in the next > > > incarnation. > > > > If you prefer fdisk, then just use that instead of DD. > > > > Emmanuel > > > 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. > > 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. > > Gene's comment was related to creating partitions, not reinstalling on > existing partitions. ---- This discussion has been had in the past. YES, you can use fdisk in a virtual terminal. Yes, disk druid will use it's own logic to determine which physical partition to assign 'newly created' partitions - which it does on the fly. Disk Druid can be directed to install specifically in already created partitions. If you want the system to on the fly create the partitions on the fly and install per your exact directions, kickstart seemed to be the only way to get it done. Search the archives Craig
