F19 Installer a little better, but...

Felix Miata mrmazda at earthlink.net
Fri Jun 14 18:01:36 UTC 2013


On 2013-06-14 09:59 (GMT-0700) Adam Williamson composed:

> 'Available space' is *unpartitioned* space, not 'partitions that happen
> to be empty'. Anaconda isn't about to assume it can just go ahead and
> stick itself in any partition which doesn't currently contain any data.
> That does not seem like a sensible thing to do.

Absolutely.

>If you want to re-use an
> existing partition, you have to tell anaconda that's what you want to
> do.

That's a part I can't figure out about Anaconda. To me the natural thing to 
do is specify one as a mount point. So far I've been unable to figure out how 
that's done without having first before starting Anaconda put a filesystem on it.
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