Previous to Fedora 18 I used to share the /boot/ partition /dev/sda1 between two systems (e.g F17 and F16) Now It only seems to be possible to format partitions before you can add it to the installation.
Any trick around this ?
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O.
Oncaphillis wrote:
Previous to Fedora 18 I used to share the /boot/ partition /dev/sda1 between two systems (e.g F17 and F16) Now It only seems to be possible to format partitions before you can add it to the installation.
Any trick around this ?
Haven't seen one yet, if there's a way to save stuff other than install without it and hack fstab after you get up, I haven't seen it. Be of good cheer, someone will find a way, or release an install disk with a sane partition manager, or something.
Read some of the resent threads, lots of us have this problem.
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On 01/19/2013 12:41 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Oncaphillis wrote:
Previous to Fedora 18 I used to share the /boot/ partition /dev/sda1 between two systems (e.g F17 and F16) Now It only seems to be possible to format partitions before you can add it to the installation.
Any trick around this ?
Haven't seen one yet, if there's a way to save stuff other than install without it and hack fstab after you get up, I haven't seen it. Be of good cheer, someone will find a way, or release an install disk with a sane partition manager, or something.
Read some of the resent threads, lots of us have this problem.
I have to agree Oncaphillis, it's really difficult to find out and select the right way to install F18 without overwriting the information of some partitions and the disk partitioning scheme of target disk(s). In one case, I was successful, in another one not (and lost all info).
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Joachim Backes wrote:
I have to agree Oncaphillis, it's really difficult to find out and select the right way to install F18 without overwriting the information of some partitions and the disk partitioning scheme of target disk(s).
Is the Custom Install option, where you specify the partition layout you want, no longer available? It didn't seem to be offered with the F-18 KDE Live CD, after clicking on "Install to Hard Disk". Is it available on the full DVD installation?
On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 15:05:36 +0000 Timothy Murphy gayleard@eircom.net wrote:
Joachim Backes wrote:
I have to agree Oncaphillis, it's really difficult to find out and select the right way to install F18 without overwriting the information of some partitions and the disk partitioning scheme of target disk(s).
Is the Custom Install option, where you specify the partition layout you want, no longer available? It didn't seem to be offered with the F-18 KDE Live CD, after clicking on "Install to Hard Disk".
In the LXDE case, there is a counter-intuitive button you have to click to get to this "partition layout" stage after the second screen, but not much came out of it for me.
In my case, I have a 10GB / partition currently hosting F17, a swap partition with 2x memory space, a small 2GB /tmp partition, a smaller /usr/local partition and a giant /home partition. What the installer offered (custom install be damned) was to install everything in the free space. I tried erasing the /, the /tmp, the swap, etc but it still would not let me decide on how much I was allowed for these. Specifically, no matter what I tried, I got a 5GB partition for / (too small IMO for the future), a 4 GB for swap, and 1 GB for /tmp. Theoretically erasing the partitions to obtain free space appeared to have no effect.
I tried with LXDE spin: all this went away when I decided to bite the bullet, backed up /home and then reformatted the whole thing. However, I do not want to do this for all my other computers so was wondering what options I have.
I may mention that all my partitions are ext4: this may be a contributing factor? In any case, how do I get around this?
Ranjan
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On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 12:27:54AM +0100, Oncaphillis wrote:
Previous to Fedora 18 I used to share the /boot/ partition /dev/sda1 between two systems (e.g F17 and F16) Now It only seems to be possible to format partitions before you can add it to the installation.
Any trick around this ?
Back up your system with rsync and restore them after install. Can't think of a reason this wouldn't work but it's cumbersome.
On 01/19/2013 10:42 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 12:27:54AM +0100, Oncaphillis wrote:
Previous to Fedora 18 I used to share the /boot/ partition /dev/sda1 between two systems (e.g F17 and F16) Now It only seems to be possible to format partitions before you can add it to the installation.
Any trick around this ?
Back up your system with rsync and restore them after install. Can't think of a reason this wouldn't work but it's cumbersome.
Well I now that this was always an option but it used to be way more convenient before. There even is a "reformat" button in the partitioning tool which is always "on" and disabled. I just wanted to check if I'm the one who is to dumb to grasp the new concept. And now I'm happy that I'm not.
Thanks
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