Digest, FC3t2 installer and disk druid

[Martin]

"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."

Did you try just Ctrl + F1 or Alt + F1?  One or the other is the console 
version of Ctrl + Alt + F1, which is actually the GUI version (although 
as you've noticed, it has worked in both console and gui mode in the 
past).  It's worth a shot.

Martin