On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 00:35 -0500, 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. > That is NOT what Gene said. He said take away the brain dead AI that is DD and make it so we can tell it what WE want and have it do exactly what we ask. Oh yes, FWIW fdisk was used for several years in the install process for Linux until it was decided by the powers-that-be that disk druid was the tool of choice. Initially fdisk only, then choice of fdisk or DD, and now choice of DD or autopartition (and autopartition does use lvm to do the creation of volumes). When I create N number of partitions and create them in the order I want them placed I do NOT want the tool to decide where they should be and reorganize them for me. My complaint, as I have stated before on other discussions about this D!@#$ tool is that it chooses to reorganize placement of partitions as it sees fit. I have had it put /boot in the extended partition area which we all know does not work. Yes I know I could have checked the box to force it to be a primary partition but that seems a lot more hassle than just creating then in the order I define them. In fact, when partitioning with dd, on the graph at the top, as I create the partition the display implies they are being created in sequence, yet when they are actually written to the disk it may be totally different. I concur with Gene. As is, Disk Druid is brain dead and useless for creating the partition. It does work well to define the filesystem/mount point and specify type and format options for predefined partitions. I will continue to use fdisk exclusively for partitioning until something more reliable than the current DD is available. > -- > Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> > Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> >
