F13 Alpha RC1

[He Rui]

On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 21:36 -0600, Jim Haynes wrote:
> I had the same problem others have reported with non-working mouse and
> keybaord when X starts up.
> 
> Then I tried to go ahead and install using the basic video system.
> I don't know if the following is a bug or if I just don't understand
> what I'm doing.  I have on the first disk a working F12 system, an
> old F11 system that I can blow away, a swap partition, and a bunch of
> free space.
> 
> I told it to do a fresh install and use the free space and it said
> it couldn't find any free space.  Then I told it to do a fresh
> install and use existing space, and I did not see it give me any
> choices about the partitioning that was going to be done or even tell
> me what it was going to do when it got to where it said it was going
> to write new partition data to the disk, so I backed out.  If I had 
> been given a choice I would have told it to install in the partition
> that currently contains the old F11 system and not touch the working
> F12 system. Then I tried telling it to update the F11 system, not what I 
> really had in mind to do, and in any case anaconda crashed with that 
> selection.
> 
> It's been quite a long time since I used the basic video kind of install,
> and I don't remember that far back, but seems like it should give me a
> lot more control over partitioning, like the X-install does.  Am I
> missing some switches that would get me into more detailed control over
> partitioning in the basic video system?
> 
> 
> 
> jhhaynes at earthlink dot net
> 

Hi Jim, 

If you do a graphical install, checking 'Review and modify partitioning
layout' at very below of the partitioning page can get you into more
detailed partitioning info. But you cannot review it if using a text
install.

Thanks,
He Rui

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