what is suppose to work?

[Gene Czarcinski]

I have been trying different things with respect to installing F18-beta 
x86_64 using both the DVD and the livcd-desktop images. One problem I am 
having is trying to figure out what is suppose to work and what is not.  
This primarily concerns storage configuration but there is more (see 
below).  I am doing this testing on both a real hardware system and 
using qemu/kvm virtual systems.

More recently (today), I created an F18-beta livecd based on what is in 
updates-testing, etc.

1.  So far, letting things default and let anaconda do all of the 
configuration works.

2.  Reusing predefined regular partitions for /boot and swap work.

3.  Using my newly created F18-beta-livecd, I attempted to install into 
a predefined LV .. this worked BUT /boot/grub2/grub.cfg did not exist 
and grub2 was not installed into /dev/vda ... manually fixed it from 
rescue.  This appears to be a step back since the regular livecd worked 
with respect to grub2.

4. I have had zero success with the F18-beta DVD in using predefined 
btrfs subvolumes.  Yes, it does display them but when I press "apply", 
the mount point value of "/" is cleared and nothing else happens.

5.  With my newly created F18-beta-livecd, I had exactly the same 
experience as above.  However, this time I deleted the two btrfs 
subvolumes I had defined and the btrfs partition.  I then reallocated a 
newbtrfs and that worked.  BUT, again, grub2 was not installed and there 
was no grub.cfg

6.  One general thing I find missing is to control where (on what 
device) a partition is allocated.  This is a problem!  Although  I was 
able to allocate the btrfs, My intent was that it be on one volume but 
in someones infinite wisdom it was on two.  Is there any effort in this 
area?

Have such tests been conducted successfully by F18 QC?

This is getting a bit frustrating!

I would say that I could consider using fedup instead but doing upgrades 
has their own set of problems and not installing new packages that would 
be in a fresh install.  My next step is to see if I can use kickstart to 
configure things "my way."

Gene