<p>What about installing F17....& doing the " fedup" procedure?... might that work?....</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 11, 2013 12:32 AM, "Dan Irwin" <<a href="mailto:rummymobile@gmail.com">rummymobile@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
So I'm trying to get F18 onto my new Dell laptop (e6530). Not<br>
surprisingly, it's not working.<br>
<br>
The installer won't let me install. It won't find free space. It won't<br>
shrink partitions.<br>
<br>
I even dropped to a shell, and used fdisk to blow away my windows 7<br>
partition, and the installer still doesn't work properly!<br>
<br>
I have now tried to manually partition, and the installer tells me<br>
"Error checking storage configuration".<br>
<br>
I have not had issues like this installing Linux since the mid 1990s.<br>
And even then, I was able to complete and install. Today, in 2013,<br>
with all the knowledge and experience I have, I cannot seem to get F18<br>
onto my laptop.<br>
<br>
In frustration, I went and installed a F18 VM on my old laptop. When<br>
the VM has an empty, unpartitioned disk, the install worked perfectly.<br>
<br>
Why has this been broken so bad? What was so bad about the old<br>
installer? The ability to manually create LVMs and partitions would is<br>
a panacea compared to this mess in F18. Seriously. This is pathetic.<br>
<br>
So, right now, I have a laptop without any OS. Useful!<br>
<br>
Notes:<br>
<br>
Yeah, I should have beta tested. But that was hard considering I only<br>
received my new laptop on Friday.<br>
I'm not blaming anyone for my deletion of my own OS.<br>
Fedora should not outright remove and replace features, and expect to<br>
have such features restorred within the usual 6 month release<br>
schedule. Who the hell signed off on this?<br>
Linux distros need to learn to not cater for novices. If you can't<br>
partition, you shouldn't be running Linux.<br>
<br>
As this has descended into rant material, I am going to choose to stop now.<br>
<br>
Come on Fedora, shape up. You can do better than this.<br>
<br>
Time to find a Fedora 17 ISO somewhere on my net...<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
Dan<br>
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