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In aus.computers.linux Mike Stephen <mikestp@telus.net> wrote:
>  
> After booting up the CDROM, I went through most of the install 
> with no problems until I came to the Druid for the drives.  I 
> have rarely seen such a poorly described procedure. This is why 
> Linux is abhorred by a great many computer users.  
>  
> When you are doing something as important as deleting partitions 
> there needs to be a far better description of what it is you are 
> doing.  Even I could write a better FDISK manager than the one in
> RedHat 6.2.  
>  
> The Disk Druid allowed me to delete the partition of 2 gigs that 
> used to have my NT 4.0 on it.  Although it did not tell me to do 
> so, after 10 mins I gathered that to make it format as a Linux 
> partition, I had to delete it first.  Now many of you out there 
> are now saying "so what, that is easy"  Well Let me tell you.  
> the FDISK Druid reports my Boot manager partition as partition 2,
> the NT partition as #3, the Warp partition as #4.  I can tell you
> it is unnerving to say the least when it comes to deleting 
> partitions, when the utility to help you determine what 
> partitions are what, is distinctly different than the actual 
> drive layout according to OS/2 Boot Manager.

Ahem.. Actually... Both MS and OS/2 get it wrong..

WHat MS and OS/2 are showing you is "The first configured partition"
as being "Partition 1".. When in fact.. this may not actually PHYSICALLY
be the case.. 

The "standard" PC master boot record has 4 slots of partitions 1, 2, 3 and 4
These are physically set this way. But, dos most often configured
partition 4 first, and called this "Partition 1", when in fact it was
really physically 1.

In the Unix/Linux world, we prefer to list things AS they physically are
not by Ill/Logical ways.

Yes, it's not consistant with Windows/OS2.. Sorry, this is linux.. not
Windows it's different.

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