F-18 installation from KDE Live USB stick

[Rex Dieter]

On 01/24/2013 07:02 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Kevin Kofler wrote:
>
>> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>> I absolutely do not want to use the "Automatic Partioning"
>>> which seems to be all I am offered.
>>> Sorry, Mr Fedora, I have absolutely no idea
>>> what you are going to do to my hard disk,
>>> and I am not in the habit of "buying a pig in a poke".
>>
>> You need to send this complaint to the Anaconda developers. We KDE
>> packagers cannot do anything about this.
>
> Thanks for the response.
>
> But I see eg from KDE bugzilla (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/)
>    Bug 902328 - Costom Disk Formatting can corrupt multiboot system
> that Custom Disk Partitioning is possible on some F-18 installations
> (presumably the full DVD installation).
>
> So it seems that the KDE Live CD uses a cut-down version of Anaconda,
> or perhaps does not use Anaconda at all,
> since I am only offered "Automatic Partitioning"?

Live images are "special" in that the system partition type cannot be 
specified since it's just going to be a dd'd (bit-for-bit) copy of 
what's on the live image (ext4).

-- rex