using parted might be another posbility also.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/gnuparted/?highlight=parted
eric
>
> Since I've received no responses, I guess there
> isn't a way around it with diskdruid.
>
> kelly
>
> Quoting Kelly Scroggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Thanks ken,
>
> But I stated that I already know how to accomplish
> this with fdisk. My question is concerning
> diskdruid.
>
> kelly
>
> Quoting kf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> You can do this with "fdisk [device_name]". See man fdisk. You
have to
> know the math of disk geometry to use this.
>
> Disk Druid is pretty smart about knowing where to put partitions.
Unless
> you've read the docs (and even if you have), it'll be a bit more
complex
> to use fdisk.
>
> hth,
> kf
>
> --
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>
>
> On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Kelly Scroggins wrote:
>
> = I'm installing Red Hat as the only OS. In
> = partitioning my disk, I want to put the swap
> = partition physically near the outside of the disk.
> = I can see how fdisk will let me do this but
> = diskdruid didn't work the way I intended.
> =
> = With diskdruid the swap partition was the first
> = one I created, but it ended up on another part of
> = the disk.
> =
> = Can anyone tell me how to control this with
> = diskdruid?
> =
> = Thanks,
> = kelly
> =
> =
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