Timothy Murphy said: > Emmanuel Seyman wrote: > > >> Fdisk has never been removed. It has always been availible >> for people who want more control over their partitioning than Disk Druid >> provides. > > What you are saying is that there is a secret code known to experts > for doing this. Again, the "secret code" is the standard keystroke for changing virtual terminals. [snip] > If you tell them > that something is dangerous you should assume that they have heard you, and > will either take care or else avoid that method altogether. Unfortunately this isn't the case. As a real-world example: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2003-July/msg00574.html > Incidentally, to the many people who have told me > I should have used Ctr-Alt-F2 rather than Alt-F2, > I actually explained at one point that I was installing in text mode, > as the X that comes with Fedora does not run properly on my Sony > Picturebook (C1VFK). > But Alt-F2 did not work for me either. WORKSFORME. Perhaps your hardware has issues changing virtual terminals? -- William Hooper
