partitioning bug during install: RH8/9 FC1

[Trae McCombs]

On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 22:52, Miloslav Trmac wrote:
> Hello,
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 11:33:59AM -0500, Trae McCombs wrote:
> > Anyhoo, the problem is when you create a partition of a smaller size for
> > /dev/hda1 than is for /dev/hda2, cfdisk, or whatever the GUI fdisk tool
> > is, will re-arrange the partitions every single time.  meaning, it puts
> > the root partition / as /dev/hda1 and puts windows /windows as /dev/hda2
> > even though I've specified the direct opposite.
> Last time I wanted to do something like this (RHL 7.2 times), I marked the
> "hda1" partition using "force to be a primary partition", these
> partitions got allocated first.
> 
> Maybe it still works that way...

Nope, that doesn't work... give it a whirl sometime.  It's quite
annoying.

> 	Mirek
> > PS. Why did we stop including regular fdisk?  It's nice to be able to
> > use this tool from time to time.  Just put a button with "Experts Only"
> > or something and pop up a warning telling people they are entering a
> > world of hurt if they don't know what they are doing with the fdisk
> > tool.
> The shell prompt is there.
> 

I'll try that next time, I think I did once, and found the results to be
less than optimal IIRC.



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