Flame on Disk Druid

[Mike Fedyk]

akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 01:56:07PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 
>>I just installed Fedora-2 on a new machine,
>>and found Disk Druid quite useless at partitioning the machine.
>>
>>I admit that the Windows partitioning was odd, to say the least.
>>There was a 64GB NTFS first partition,
>>while the second partition was "Windows 95 Extended"
>>with a 4MB VFAT partition inside.
>>The disk is 250GB, so this leaves a lot of space.
>>
>>First I opted for "automatic partitioning"
>>but this bombed out with a rather useless error message,
>>so I was forced to use Disk Druid.
>>This simply refused to accept anything I suggested.
>>
>>So I put in a Knoppix CD, and partitioned with fdisk.
>>
>>I really wish the fdisk option was still offered
>>as an alternative to Disk Druid.
>>
> 
> It is offered but you have to know the trick. Just before you are
> about to go to disk druid hit ALT-CTL-F1 (might be F2). This puts you
> into a shell where you can run fdisk. Then I think one does
> ALT-CTL-F7 and you are back in the anaconda.

 From the gui installer it's ctrl-alt-f2 from the text installer it's 
alt-f2 and from the command line (after you got to the second console) 
you press alt-f7 to get back to the gui installer, but I don't know what 
console the text installer is on (maybe alt-f1?).

Mike