Experienced users know how to get to fdisk during install if one wants or needs to skip around disk druid. Some things disk druid just can't do. An example might be to create two partitions on one disk with a little one in front of a big one.
At any rate fdisk can do that so that is what I did. The rub comes in getting back to the installer.
Ctrl + ALT + F2 (I think it was but maybe F3) Will get you to a command line where fdisk is available however I find no way to get back. C-A-F1 doesn't do it. None of the other available terminals do it either including f7.
I tried it seveal times... restarting the install each time. But before going the Bugzilla route, I wanted to here from a developer or other knowledgable person if I'm just overlooking some other technique.
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 09:37:20AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
Experienced users know how to get to fdisk during install if one wants or needs to skip around disk druid. Some things disk druid just can't do. An example might be to create two partitions on one disk with a little one in front of a big one.
At any rate fdisk can do that so that is what I did. The rub comes in getting back to the installer.
Ctrl + ALT + F2 (I think it was but maybe F3) Will get you to a command line where fdisk is available however I find no way to get back. C-A-F1 doesn't do it. None of the other available terminals do it either including f7.
I tried it seveal times... restarting the install each time. But before going the Bugzilla route, I wanted to here from a developer or other knowledgable person if I'm just overlooking some other technique.
How about "f8"? There are many more virtual terminals than just f1-f7. :-)
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Gregory Woodbury wrote:
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 09:37:20AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
Experienced users know how to get to fdisk during install if one wants or needs to skip around disk druid. Some things disk druid just can't do. An example might be to create two partitions on one disk with a little one in front of a big one.
At any rate fdisk can do that so that is what I did. The rub comes in getting back to the installer.
Ctrl + ALT + F2 (I think it was but maybe F3) Will get you to a command line where fdisk is available however I find no way to get back. C-A-F1 doesn't do it. None of the other available terminals do it either including f7.
Alt-F7 gets me back to the graphical install just fine -- always has.
rday
Gregory Woodbury ggw@wolves.durham.nc.us writes:
How about "f8"? There are many more virtual terminals than just f1-f7.
I guess my post did seem as if I stoped at 7. But in fact I tried all of them. I mentioned F7 since it is a common one to return to X.
I couldn't get back with any of them.
However on the strength of your post I started the install cd again and tested it. Sure enogh F7 does get the install back.
I'm thinking now it had to be something to do with the laptop I was installing on, because I used every key across the top trying to get the install back several times.
Em Qui, 2004-09-23 às 12:10, Harry Putnam escreveu:
I'm thinking now it had to be something to do with the laptop I was installing on, because I used every key across the top trying to get the install back several times.
Hello,
I had this problem with some savage-based videocards. It used to return me to a blank screen, where I could use after some ctrl-alt-minus. this is savage specific, as it happens with knoppix, conectiva, kurumin and debian also. In fact, I have to ctrl-alt-minus to begin installation.
I used DiskDruid on FC3T2 with no problems. I had already a Primary NTFS and a FAT32. I deleted my old three Debian Partitions and made new ones w/ whatever sizes I wanted. Maybe I'm not understanding your problem but I don't think you need FDISK.
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Experienced users know how to get to fdisk during install if one wants or needs to skip around disk druid. Some things disk druid just can't do. An example might be to create two partitions on one disk with a little one in front of a big one.
At any rate fdisk can do that so that is what I did. The rub comes in getting back to the installer.
Ctrl + ALT + F2 (I think it was but maybe F3) Will get you to a command line where fdisk is available however I find no way to get back. C-A-F1 doesn't do it. None of the other available terminals do it either including f7.
I tried it seveal times... restarting the install each time. But before going the Bugzilla route, I wanted to here from a developer or other knowledgable person if I'm just overlooking some other technique.
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Michael Seney michael_seney@yahoo.com writes:
I used DiskDruid on FC3T2 with no problems. I had already a Primary NTFS and a FAT32. I deleted my old three Debian Partitions and made new ones w/ whatever sizes I wanted. Maybe I'm not understanding your problem but I don't think you need FDISK.
--- Harry Putnam reader@newsguy.com wrote:
yeah I do... but my reasons aren't really related to this thread.
Disk druid cannot do this:
fdisk -l /dev/hdc [...] /dev/hdc1 397 996 4819500 5 Extended /dev/hdc5 397 433 297171 82 Linux swap /dev/hdc6 434 996 4522266 83 Linux
That is, put the small logical swap partition ahead of the larger logical partition on hdc6. when you try to do that it relocates the smaller partition after the larger thus moving from hdc5 to hdc6.
I wanted a certain pattern here in order to facilitate ghosting partitions to other machines already laid out.
But even without needing to do that, fdisk is much faster and more precise than diskdruid. But of course that is only true for experienced users.
Harry Putnam wrote:
Experienced users know how to get to fdisk during install if one wants or needs to skip around disk druid. Some things disk druid just can't do. An example might be to create two partitions on one disk with a little one in front of a big one.
wow, I didn't know fdisk was still there, I really miss it. Druid ALWAYS (and I really do mean always) messes up my partition orders...
At any rate fdisk can do that so that is what I did. The rub comes in getting back to the installer.
Ctrl + ALT + F2 (I think it was but maybe F3) Will get you to a command line where fdisk is available however I find no way to get back. C-A-F1 doesn't do it. None of the other available terminals do it either including f7.
I tried it seveal times... restarting the install each time. But before going the Bugzilla route, I wanted to here from a developer or other knowledgable person if I'm just overlooking some other technique.
yes- I'd really like to know how to do this as well.
Why not just put the 'fdisk' choice back in for those of us who don't need training wheels?
ron
Phil Schaffner wrote:
On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 10:04 -0500, RON FLORY wrote:
Why not just put the 'fdisk' choice back in for those of us who don't need training wheels?
It's there. Ctrl-Alt-F2, fdisk /dev/hdX. :-)
Nice to know that. I just assumed that when they removed it from the installer back in RH8 or so, they also removed it from the disk image to save space. I should have checked...
ron
On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 09:37 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
Ctrl + ALT + F2 (I think it was but maybe F3) Will get you to a command line where fdisk is available however I find no way to get back. C-A-F1 doesn't do it. None of the other available terminals do it either including f7.
Odd. Either Alt-F7 or Ctrl-Alt-F7 works for me to get back to the GUI installer from VC #2 command prompt. Are you perhaps running text mode installer (on VC #1 IIRC)? Just tested on a machine currently running (yet another) attempted FC3T2 install. Have had problems on my problematic IBM Thinkpad A21p where the machine locks up when trying to switch VCs.
Phil