disk partition probs - FC2 install

[Jeff Vian]

Ben Steeves wrote:

>On Sat, 2004-12-06 at 11:46 -0600, Reg Clemens wrote:
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>>>On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 16:22:09 +1000, Matt Rex wrote:
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>>>>I have a disk with the partitions out of order. i.e. hda5 is before hda4.
>>>>Is this a problem? Is it possible to change the order?
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>>This is the result of using Disk Druid to partition the disk, and its
>>the reason I constantly complain about this piece of software that
>>RedHat has impoesed on us.
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>"Imposed" is rather harsh, and inaccurate.  During the install you can
>switch to the console and invoke fdisk manually.
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IMO "imposed" is not a harsh term, nor inaccurate.  

Thru RH8 you had a choice of fdisk or disk druid from the gui.
in RH9 and later they removed fdisk from the gui, thus, without jumping 
thru the hoops of going to the console window in the middle of the 
install process it is not available until after the install is completed.

It wasn't until about 3 months ago that I (an experienced user) was even 
aware of the capability to  get a console window during an install. 
 What I previously was doing was booting to rescue mode, running fdisk 
to create the partitions in the order "I" wanted, then restarting the 
install.  This avoided the capricious tendency of disk druid to put 
partitions in the order it chose rather than the order they were 
created.  Disk druid numbers them in the order created, but places them 
in often different sequence -- a practice which is confusing at best.

So far, even though I now know the capability for the console is there, 
I have been unsuccessful in finding that documented anywhere.  Newbies 
have no chance to even know the  console access is available.

Thus, the statement by Reg that this is something "imposed" on us is, I 
feel, 100% accurate.  Only the true experts have any way around using 
disk druid.