Disk Druid - Fedora flame #1

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 13:00 -0500, William Hooper wrote:
> Timothy Murphy said:
> > Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Fdisk has never been removed. It has always been availible
> >> for people who want more control over their partitioning than Disk Druid
> >> provides.
> >
> > What you are saying is that there is a secret code known to experts
> > for doing this.
> 
> Again, the "secret code" is the standard keystroke for changing virtual
> terminals.
> 

once again. that presumes that the user is familiar with changing
virtual terminals,  and BTW -- those keystrokes are different in text
mode vs graphics mode. (at least once booted to the OS).

> [snip]
> > If you tell them
> > that something is dangerous you should assume that they have heard you, and
> > will either take care or else avoid that method altogether.
> 
> Unfortunately this isn't the case.  As a real-world example:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2003-July/msg00574.html
> 
> > Incidentally, to the many people who have told me
> > I should have used Ctr-Alt-F2 rather than Alt-F2,
> > I actually explained at one point that I was installing in text mode,
> > as the X that comes with Fedora does not run properly on my Sony
> > Picturebook (C1VFK).
> > But Alt-F2 did not work for me either.
> 
> WORKSFORME.  Perhaps your hardware has issues changing virtual terminals?
> 
> -- 
> William Hooper
>