I've installed both dists too, and had no problem. Did you chose the
"custom" installation, which is the same as the 5.x style installations?
I think that the other 2 options (workstation and server) have their own
ideas about how the partitions should be organised.
Rusty wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I installed Linux-Mandrake and Red Hat , version 6.0 as soon as they were
> released. I partitioned my hard drives with both Disk Druid and Fdisk and
> received the same results. All I got was a small boot partition and
> everthing else dumped into over eight (8) GB of an extended partition with
> multiple logical drives. This is not what I ordered. I wanted to have
> three(3) primary partitions and one extended partition, into which I would
> create as many logical drives as I saw fit for my installation.
>
> I came to linux over a year ago because I tried to install a sound card in
> Windoz 98 at IRQ 5 and DMA 1 and 5, and some son-of-a-bitch in Redmond WA had
> decided that I could not use those settings.
>
> In previous versions of Red Hat, Mandrake and SuSe I had no problem
> partitioning the HD any way I chose. What gives?? Do we have a case of
> "WE KNOW BETTER" or is there a reasonable explanation?
>
> Is Linux going the way of MickeySoft? Or is this just Red Hat and Mandrake?
>
> Perhaps someone who makes these decisions can reply?
>
> Rusty
