Get a console during install?

I haven't needed to do this in awhile, but at one time I could alt+f2 into a console. Yast2 (ughh gross nasty why did yast have to leave us...) keeps complaining about parted's inability to re-partition a disk... I know fdisk will do it. Thanks. -- Locusts and honey ... not since John The Baptist has there been a voice like that crying in the wilderness. ... Every man knows he is a sissy compared to Johnny Cash. -- Bono