On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 10:38:48PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
And very handy all the other virtual consoles are, too. (1994 thanks you for that tip, Craig. ;-> )
i think that these days some people don't even realise that their linux box has multiple vts, what with booting directly into fancy graphical display managers and other luxury stuff :)
Still, I continue to prefer to use a best-of-breed live-CD disk with a very recent kernel (maximal hardware support) and highly reliable and diverse command-line tools for utility purposes such as partitioning and initial mkfs -- a superior environment for that purpose, IMO, than distro installers, even ones I like, like Debian's, are ever likely to furnish. I therefore also recommend that approach to others.
Yep. IMO either clonezilla or gparted make nice partitioning and/or rescue disks. or, as you say, a good recent live CD. Useful if you need to do anything beyond what the command line tools on the installer can do. But for basic partitioning without doing anything "unusual" like zfs, fdisk or gdisk in a root console works well enough. And it avoids having to reboot again just to partition the disks. Linux itself boots quickly, it's the BIOS that takes ages. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>