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
Wow... Wow wow!
I have M6 and Installed RH 6 before mandrake came out, and I did NOT any
troubles
with eithr one of them, I choose Mandrake because is got want I want, the way I
want it.
I always use disk Druid to make partitions. But I select CUSTOM not server or
desktop.
I believe we all in this list decided to use linux because is superior in every
stage to
that product from Reymond, and not because we had problems to setup a sound
card, which by the way is set to irq=5 anywas most of the time. (under Winblows)
that is.
If you choose to Install M6 or RH6 using the SERVER or DESTOP options, they very
much
decide for you what is the best posible setup according to your system resourses
and
available space.
By the way... I do not call the shots, I am just a normal user. (you might say a
loyal linux
user) We have found bugs, but we work together to solve them! No one ver say
linux is
perfect, its just better!
