I don't know about your other issues, but I'll try to answer the ones below.
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Nikolaus Rath Nikolaus@rath.org wrote:
Alright, so I'll do without swap for now. Next thing the installer complains that I cannot put my root partition into LVM2. This works just fine with Grub2, and isn't Fedora supposed to be cutting edge? Anyway, so I try to create a primary /boot partition instead.
Fedora uses a patched version of GRUB Legacy. It can read / partitions on LVM but the /boot partition still needs to be ext* on disk.
There is 128 MB of free space. I tell the installer to use all the space that's available. It claims that there is not enough space left.
In Fedora we use an application called preupgrade for distro upgrades. During those upgrades the installer downloads the new kernel images to /boot before the upgrade is performed. On previous versions there has been problems where the /boot was not large enough and upgrades failed. So from F12 the recommended /boot size is 500MB to avoid such issues.
At this point I just got too annoyed. Am I just extremely unlucky or is a Fedora installation always that painful?
I hope I answered a few of your issues.