<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Tim Flink <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tflink@redhat.com">tflink@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On 03/16/2011 11:36 AM, Gregory Woodbury wrote:<br>
> No traceback or messages that I can see, just a notification that i can't<br>
> put<br>
> a partition on root.<br>
<br>
</div></div>Just to re-iterate (and slightly rephrase) what James said: I believe<br>
that the change to anaconda was to disallow assigning '/' to a partition<br>
that was not being formatted during the installation process. If the<br>
partition was previously formatted, you wouldn't be able to mount it as<br>
'/' unless you reformat it as part of the install.<br>
<br>
Are you using custom or auto partitioning?<br>
<br>
Are you using pre-existing partitions/logical volumes? If so, does<br>
deleting and re-creating those partitions work (assuming you can do so)?<br></blockquote><div><br>Yes, it is wanting the partition formatted before letting it be assigned to root.<br><br>This is rather awkard as the format checkbox is below the mount point box.<br>
Are we going to recommend a seperate /home? Should the default layout make a /home?<br><br>This is, IIRC the second go around on forcing the root to be formatted. What if /home is<br>in the root and you don't want to lose it! Last time we got a notification that the partition<br>
ought to be formatted, unless there are home directories or something you want to keep.<br><br>FC13 has this notification, 15 lost it and now wants to force formatting.<br><br>Two steps back and 1/2 step forward.<br><br>-- <br>
G.Wolfe Woodbury<br>aka redwolfe (proventesters) <br></div></div>