well!

[Kaleb KEITHLEY]

On 03/13/2013 12:17 PM, Stef Walter wrote:
> On 03/12/2013 08:17 PM, Till Maas wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:47:07AM -0400, Digimer wrote:
>>> On 03/12/2013 12:41 AM, Charles Zeitler wrote:
>>>> i don't like giving up control over my machine (partitioning),
>>>> so i won't be upgrading to Fedora 18.
>>>> i'll watch the web site for a return to sanity.
>>>>
>>>> charles zeitler
>>>
>>> Setting aside the drama, you can manually partition F18.
>>
>> Unless anaconda crashes (live image) or does not recognise the
>> partitions (DVD image). :-/
>> Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=905669
>>
>> Btw.: Ideas how to install F18 anyhow are welcome.
>
> If I'm honest, I couldn't get F18 Anaconda to install to the partition I
> wanted either :S
>
> I have multiple Linux OS partitions (Fedora 18, Rawhide, Ubuntu), and
> one big home directory partition, and I wanted Anaconda to replace one
> of them.
>
> Eventually I gave up, installed F18 to a VM, and then used rsync +
> restorecon + grub2-mkconfig (!) to get it into the partition I wanted.

That was my experience as well. LVMs though instead of partitions. I 
solved it by deleting the LVM I wanted to replace and letting Anaconda 
create a new LVM using the space from the old one.