From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 Description of problem: In 8.0.92 and earlier, I had the option to accept a simple partion scheme (/boot, swap, and /), to manually partition with Disk Druid, or to manually partition with fdisk. Now, in 8.0.93, the fdisk option is gone! For anything but a throw-away install, I first partition with fdisk, then assign mount points in Disk Druid. The main reason is that I like to use logical drives in an extended partition for everything but /boot. For example: hda1: /boot hda2: extended hda5: swap hda6: physical volume hda7: physical volume ... While it may seem picky to want a particular partition layout, I have a strong preference for putting swap before other partitions, as that puts it on the outer tracks, improving access and transfer times. With fdisk, this is easy to accomplish. With Disk Druid, I have to monkey around until it's approximately right. This is hard enough for single-disk installs; I imagine it's worse for multi-disk installs. I don't care if you call fdisk "for experts," or hide it in the custom install, so long as I can write the partition table, go back, and continue with Disk Druid. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 8.0.93 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start a graphical install of Red Hat Linux 8.0.93 2. Select a clean install (I tried work station and custom) 3. Continue until you reach the partition choices Actual Results: I see two options: automatically partition, or manually partition with Disk Druid. Expected Results: There should be a third option, to manually partition with fdisk. Additional info:
fdisk was gone in the first phoebe. It will not be coming back. Users who know how to use fdisk and want to can do so from tty2.