Disk Druid - Fedora flame #1
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Mon Jan 17 15:51:45 UTC 2005
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Disk Druid is a dreadful program.
Nah, it's fine for many purposes, but there are some things that some
people might want to do that aren't easy to do with it.
> Why has the choice of fdisk disappeared?
It's there for experts, but IIRC was removed to avoid tempting newbies to
try a dangerous and difficult tool.
> I read that one could bring up bash (and so run fdisk)
> by Alt-F2 when asked to choose
> between automatic partitioning and Disk Druid (what a choice!)
> but that did not work for me.
Should be Ctrl-Alt-F2 to switch from X to VC 2.
>
> I wanted to re-organise my partitions
> while keeping hda1 which has Windows-XP on it.
> I couldn't see any way to do this with Disk Druid,
> so I had to start Knoppix, and run fdisk under that.
>
> It seems rather bad to me that one has to run another distribution
> in order to install Fedora.
>
> Maybe I am missing something?
fdisk is available in rescue mode too.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
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