Re: Unable to install F18 into an existing linux partitions.
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/F...
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