fdisk mystery

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On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 12:24:00PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> fdisk is not a Redhat package. It's packaged by Redhat in its 
> distribution, but that's not the same thing.
> 
> Also, the "custom" part of the install refers to package selection--well 
> past the disk partitioning part which seems to be where you're stuck.
> 
> And, since you're stuck on partitioning, why not just partition using some 
> utility you already know? Like DOS' fdisk, for example? Or PowerQuest 

This is not good idea in my opinion. Linux has the best tools for
partitioning and I would not use anything else for that job.

> partition magic. It isn't necessary to do it in linux. Diskdruid can turn 
> whatever fat partition you have into a linux native partition if you 
> simply specify that as the file system type. There's really no need to 
> create the partitions using a linux tool, if you're unfamiliar with them.

There is time to learn new things. This time is partitioning tools :-)

Rafael

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