Re: [Rule-list] Potential low mem boot disk/installer

[Martin Stricker]

Gordon Buzowetsky wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 03 Mar 2002 18:55:04 -0500
> Devon <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > cfdisk is part of the util-linux package. Red Hat stopped including
> > it it the rpms, though.
> > $ rpm -q util-linux --changelog | grep cfdisk
> > - - Don't include cfdisk, since it appears to be an even bigger pile
> > of junk than fdisk? :)
> >
>  Hi Devon....beg to differ....but maybe you had been using older
> versions....cfdisk is all I've been using for quite some time...and it
> seems to make nice clean partitions....checked with fdisk after.  I
> know some have had trouble with it (overlapping partitions)  but this
> was just my experience....and more than anything I was thinking of the
> newcomers....myself; I can fumble through an install with fdisk if
> need be...:-)).........Gord

Gordon, look closely what Devon has written: It was the comment from the
Red Hat RPM changelog concerning cfdisk, *not* his own comment!

Best regards,
Martin Stricker
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