On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 02:04:43AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >How is it supposed to psychically know this? Fdisk certainly > > wouldn't have any such magic powers. > Who said it did? What I'm saying is that it totally ignored the > existing fdisk setup partitions and carved out its own from whole > cloth. Did you get an error dialog about the partition table? If so, this is the bug with parted and the 2.6 kernel. Not a disk druid design flaw. > There is, fdisk. Wworks just fine and doesn't give any surprises. > What more can one ask for in a tool designed to do a job? Something that does the entire rest of the job that disk druid does? > Ok, I'll compromise, on the next go-round (read that as FC4) that the > man pages can be made readable, from the installers only screen since > a ctl+_alt+F2 only gets you a blank screen at that point in the > install. We *know* how to make fdisk work, and it makes perfect The shell should be running by that point unless there is a greater problem with the installer. Not a blank screen. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
