Unable to install F18 into an existing linux partitions.

[poma]

On 07.04.2013 03:43, Dan Thurman wrote:
> 
> I was not able to install F18 via LiveCD/Anaconda
> as it appears to insist on (unformatted) free space.
> 
> I was able to install F17 with anaconda, which
> allowed me to specify the /boot and / software
> destination having two partitions wiped out by
> newly reformatting them while installing.
> 

Blivet[1] ain't Disk Druid. ;)

> In F18, one has a choice to choose LVM, BRFS(?), or

B-tree file system(BTRFS)[3] ;)

> Partition schemes, so I choose the Partition
> scheme, checked that I wanted no help, to
> manually modify and/or define the software
> destination and hovering the cursor over 2nd
> button, the highlight says: "Please wait... software
> metadata is being loaded" and nothing happens for
> over 30 minutes of waiting.

Mamma mia! :)

> I do not want to use the 'reclaim' button because
> this might mess up the partition table and screw
> the entire disk.

http://goo.gl/Z8XSW
Notice the lower right corner.

> I also noted that while waiting, I was able to set
> the locale, but not allowed to change the date,
> time nor 12/24 hour selections, they are greyed out,
> even though I was able to do this on the time/date
> menubar but this has nothing to do with anaconda.

http://goo.gl/jWDbr
Notice the upper right corner.

> So, what can I do at this point?

Blivet[1] is still in diapers[2].
Therefore, you can attempt to install with the recent version.
http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/19-Alpha-TC5/Fedora/i386/iso/Fedora-19-Alpha-TC5-i386-netinst.iso
http://goo.gl/MN3xc ;)

poma


[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Blivet
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=blivet
[3] https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page