partitioning problems when trying to install Fedora Core 3

[Joseph Kubik]

I always go through the installer untill partition time.
ctrl-alt-F2
mknod /dev/hdN or mknod /dev/sdN where n is appropiate.
fdisk /dev/hda
create my partitions as I like.

Then, ALT-F1 or ALT-F7 and set the mount points as appropriate
usingthe "expert" partitioning option.

-Joseph-


On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:44:08 -0500, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 08:16:05PM -0500, Simon Tonekham wrote:
> > First of all, how do I be able to boot the redhat installer into expert
> > mode? I don't see an option stating this in my boot CD, so I have to
> > find other means on getting into expert mode and therefore if all else
> > fails, I would have to remove all partitions off my hard drive and start
> > with a normal installation. I may have to find a way on how to create a
> > VFAT partition in Linux. Any advice?
> 
> Well it used to be that at the boot prompt of the CD you could type in
> 'expert' or something like that, and you would get the text installer
> instead of a graphical one and it wouldn't try to tell you how to do
> things.  Of course that was years ago, back around redhat 6 (and older).
> that's when the package quality got sufficiently bad that I stopped
> using it, so I have no idea if they still have such an option.
> 
> Creating more partitions after installing should be easy, assuming the
> installer doesn't eat the whole disk for it's own partitions, by simply
> using cfdisk to create a new partition, of the apropriate type for fat32
> and then using mkdosfs -F 32 on the new partition (probably after a
> reboot to reread the partition table after using fdisk) to format it as
> vfat32.  Then you add it to fstab and mount it.
> 
> I still find it hard to believe there is no installer option for 'manual
> partitioning'.  That would make it almost as bad as the Corel Linux
> installer which would die with no option to help it if it didn't
> identify all the hardware automatically.
> 
> Lennart Sorensen
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