RedHat 8 install wtf?!

[smokey]

This is a little old now, however I want to see if anyone else had this problem.

During the RH8 install - when it came to partitioning the harddrive about 10 seconds after disk druid appeared it would hard lock my computer. I had to use the Mandrake disk tool to create my linux partitions and then use automatic with premade partitions.

[Doogee]

cant you use fdisk or cfdisk or something with red hat?

[smokey]

you can use fdisk - but the question is would you want to...  

[Doogee]

err, yes, i would in fact  

[smokey]

well that makes... 1

[smokey]

urgh my net connection is munted- and now i cant access more than say 3 sites    oh well optus sucks

[Calum]

what the hell is "munted-"?

[Doogee]

good question.

if you asked the people here im sure they would say they would just use fdisk, beleive me i am not the only one

Mate

[ April 11, 2003: Message edited by: Doogee : t3h sl4(k i5 1337 ]

[Calum]

well i would recommend using cfdisk however i know that red hat gives you the option of using disk druid or fdisk and that's it. if it were me i would indeed run the mandrake installer up to the diskdrake section and then exit to install red hat on my new partitions, but frankly i cannot see why there's anything wrong with that. why complain if it gets the job done? i am sure i could have booted linux off a floppy and run cfdisk had i wanted to, and that method is just as good. i used to do all my partitioning by using a DOS floppy and the dos program pqmagict.exe which is very similar to cfdisk but with less otions and (i realised quite quickly) much more flakiness especially on newer drives.

so i don't think doogee is the only one who would use those perfectly good partitioning tools, no.

and how the hell did you munt the internet? i am eager to find out! will it still be munted next time i want to use it?

[Faust]

fdisk is cool
back when I was using Mandrake 9.0 and working out how to set up my partitions I would boot into red hat 7.1 install just to get the control available with fdisk.

[Doogee]

if you want to boot up drake or whatever then thats great, you are right, it gets the job done.

But it gives the option to use fdisk, why not just do that. more control than that auto part stuff and booting, changing cds.

Mah

[Calum]

i don't think i know how to use fdisk properly because after using it (when i installed red hat) i had to then go into disk druid to set up which was going to be the root partition, and what the labels would be and which ones were going to be formatted during the install. are these things fdisk should do or am i think or what?

[Doogee]

no i dont think fdisk does that stuff, just the actuall partition part