On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 09:29 +0000, John Austin wrote: > I find it much cleaner to sort out the partitions, format and label > them before starting the install proper. > Then a custom install with no formatting is fine. I do the same. However, we wouldn't have to if the install routine wasn't quite so dumbed down. > The chain loader approach is quite neat when playing with different > installs. I've done that, too. But I really hate dual-boot systems, it's always a compromise. I've only done it on three systems, that that I had already paid for the other OS that came with it, and another that I wanted to do some experimentation with (which usually gets abandoned after a week, or so - I'm more interested in making use of the computer, not playing with it). -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.