On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 13:00 -0500, William Hooper wrote: > 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. > once again. that presumes that the user is familiar with changing virtual terminals, and BTW -- those keystrokes are different in text mode vs graphics mode. (at least once booted to the OS). > [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 >
