From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) Description of problem: If you use fdisk to partition your drive and create > 4 partitions, the mount naming step in disk druid that follows will not recognize any partitions other than 1 and 5. All other partitions have type "None" and no mount point can be specified. Attempting to edit the partition in disk druid at that point fails. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Select fdisk for disk partitioning. 2.Create /dev/hda1,primary; hda2, primary; hda3,extended; hda4, primary. Then create hda5,6,7,8 3.Save partition data, select Next. 4.In Disk Druid partition /dev/hda1 will be shown as type Ext3 and it's mount point can be specified. /dev/hda5 will be shown as type Ext2, and it's mount point can be specified. All other partitions will be shown as type "None" and no mount points can be specified. Actual Results: See steps to reproduce above. Expected Results: Partitions should have been shown as Ext2, 3, or swap and mount points should have been definable. Additional info: You can get around this and create a mulitple partition >3 installation if you use ONLY disk druid. Even there, the inability to specify the partition you're creating as type "extended" is awkward to work around. Creating complex partition schema's in disk druid is not a straightforward process.
did you select a filesystem to use for these new partitions?
All partitions were newly created; all specified as type 83 or type 82.
This defect considered SHOULD-FIX for Fairfax.
This should have been one of the things fixed by msf's update disk at ftp://people.redhat.com/msf/update-disk-07192001.img (or if not, it's done in internal trees from after that, but I'm pretty certain that it was fixed then)