Installing FC5 on pre-partitioned /dev/hdb
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Mon Apr 3 17:43:46 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 13:27 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 03 April 2006 12:18, Sjoerd Mullender wrote:
> >When you boot off your DVD, you'll see on the screen something about
> >booting with "linux text", but at the bottom of the screen there is
> >something about hitting F2 to get options. If you were to do that,
> > you would see the "askmethod" option. So, perhaps try "linux text
> > askmethod"? It works. You get the option to do whatever you wa
> >
> >1. Boot off your DVD.
> >2. Read screen. In particular the message about F2 and Options.
> >3. Hit F2.
> >4. Read screen. Notice the "askmethod" option.
> >5. Boot with "linux text askmethod".
> >6. You'll get the option to do whatever you want with your partitions.
> >In text mode.
> >
> >I maintain, it's all there.
>
> It may be on *that* screen, but thats not the screen one would
> intuitively use for that. Those options should be fully available at
> the top of the drive prep menu, and I don't have a quarter to call
> somebody who *thinks* they are simplifying it for Joe & Jane Sixpack
> and tell him/her thay they are an idiot for doing it preemptively, long
> before one is even thinking of how the target drive is to be prepared.
> Just like the organization line in my headers, absolutely none.
>
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there is a mechanism for providing feedback...bugzilla. I've read it
here many times...it's not a bug if it's not in bugzilla.
Craig
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