You will need to use diskdruid regardless of whether or not you use fdisk to create the actual partitions. You will need to use diskdruid to specify the mount points to the Redhat installer -- e.g. which partition is to be /, which one is /usr, which one is /home, etc. By the bye, my advice, and it's my very strong advice, is to put linux into at least those three basic partitions. OK, I could go along with two, / and /home, but no less. PS: I disagree that diskdruid is particularly blind friendly. It can be used effectively by a blind person, but only after you catch on to its quirks. Unfortunately, diskdruid is even worse in the new Redhat beta--the new and not improved diskdruid that you will still need to wrestle with to specify mount points. On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Rafael Skodlar wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 07:04:30PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Given linux is all that's on a 20gig drive, in the custom installation > > selection I have a choice of fdisk or disk druid. Which one is best to > > use, and what are best selections for answering it? Neither one of those > > packages look at hardware and offer defaults for partition names and > > sizes. This should be a simpler situation than trying to have both > > windows and linux on a machine though. > > Either one is good. diskdruid is more user friendly but fails in some > instances. fdisk never failed for me assuming the drive parameters in BIOS > were setup correctly. > > I like to split disk drive into following partition scheme assuming ATA > type of disk drive: > > /dev/hda1 / (100 - 150 MB bootable) > /dev/hda5 /usr (1 GB - 2 GB, depending on the system function; server etc.) > /dev/hda6 /var (200 -400 MB, for logs etc.) > /dev/hda7 /tmp (200 -300 MB) > /dev/hda8 swap (twice the RAM size, 512 MB max) > /dev/hda9 /home (the rest of the drive for user space) > > That scheme allows me to upgrade without reformatting home directory and > makes it easier for backups etc. Note that creating a separate /boot > partition doesn't give you anything while / (root) partition with some > binaries in /bin and /sbin is enough to recover from some problems. > Creating a single partition for everything is bad and you realize it when > you want to upgrade if not sooner. > > If you need to partition identical drives many times then creating a file > with partition information is worth doing and use sfdisk to automaticaly > create partition from the information in file. > > Hope it answers your question. > > > Jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net> > > -- > Rafael > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175 Chair, Accessibility SIG Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF) http://www.openebook.org Will electronic books surpass print books? Read our white paper, Surpassing Gutenberg, at http://www.afb.org/ebook.asp Download a free sample Digital Talking Book edition of Martin Luther King Jr's inspiring "I Have A Dream" speech at http://www.afb.org/mlkweb.asp Learn how to make accessible software at http://www.afb.org/accessapp.asp