Re: Yum did it again

[Chuck Anderson <cra WPI EDU>]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 09:16:58AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Did they get rid of whatever simple minded disk tool they were using?, 
> or was it worked on enough that it did what you told it to?  Whatever 
> that was they used in FC3 is never, ever getting a chance to infect 
> my system again.  Gimme fdisk, which does exactly what you tell it 
> to, nothing more, nothing less.  I started 2 major list wars over 
> that busted disk tool at the time and its not going to bite me again.

Try this:

Ctrl-Alt-F2
fdisk

I've done this myself several times to get exactly what I wanted, such 
as LVM with multiple PV partitions on a single device.