FC6 Pre first attempt failed

Guy Fraser guy at incentre.net
Wed Oct 11 14:47:08 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 14:30 -0400, Mathieu Pelletier wrote:
> Are you installing over a previous version of Linux with volume
> groups?  I have seen this problem with FC6 in numerous posts.  The
> problem stems from a bug that causes the installation to hang when
> there is a dash in the volume group name, e.g. "FC5-Vol00".  That
> might be the place to look for an answer.  Just a thought.
> 
It very well might since FC5 defaults to using LVM and creating
partitions like :
/dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol01

This should be considered a significant bug since almost all FC5
installations will be affected.

What is the work around?




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