F17: fatal errors on install

[Gerry Reno]

On 06/04/2012 07:37 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:
> On 06/04/2012 06:23 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:
>> On 06/04/2012 03:19 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>>> On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 15:06:46 -0400
>>> Gerry Reno <greno at verizon.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Today tried installing F17 x86_64 from DVD and get these errors:
>>>>
>>>>     ERROR: could not insert 'floppy': No such device
>>>>     Loading Fedora 17 x86_64 installer...
>>>>
>>>>     dracut Warning: Unable to process initqueue
>>>>     dracut Warning: /dev/disk/by-label/Fedorax2017x20x86_64 does not
>>>> exist dracut Warning: /dev/mapper/live-rw does not exist
>>>>
>>>>     Dropping to debug shell.
>>>>
>>>>     dracut:/#
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This laptop does not have a 'floppy' device.
>>>>
>>>> Should installing F17 not be as simple as inserting DVD into drive
>>>> and rebooting?
>>>>
>>>> Is there a workaround to get F17 installed from DVD?
>>> Please help debug this issue at: 
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=827644
>>>
>>> kevin
>>>
>>>
>> Burned another DVD and booting it got some other errors (rpcbind?) but it runs the installer at least.
>>
>> I'm doing custom partitioning and I selected to encrypt the LVM physical volume (LUKS) but now it is also asking about
>> encrypting the filesystem for logical volume.
>>
>> Do I need both of these?
>>
> And another problem.  You cannot edit the Volume Group name field.  I need several Volume Groups but now I have no way
> to do this since there's no way to make them unique.  :-(
>
> .

Opened bug on inability to edit Volume Group name:  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=828592

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