F17 & btrfs installation

[Kashyap Chamarthy]

> 
> I'm going give it a try w/ btrfs partitioning. Meanwhile, I wasn't keeping up. Can someone
> confirm, does /boot still need to be ext3/ext4 for btrfs to work?
> 


Ok, I gave it a try w/ the below command line, and an error "you have not created a
bootloader stage1 target device. This can happen if there is not enough space on your
harddrive for your installation"

Really? There is plenty of space on the disk.

Screenshot of the text install error -->
http://kashyapc.fedorapeople.org/f17-btrfs-install.png

Any hints?


==> virt-install cmdline <==
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$ virt-install --connect=qemu:///system \
    --network=bridge:br0 \
    --initrd-inject=./ks-with-btrfs.ks \
    --extra-args="ks=file:/ks-with-btrfs.ks console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200
root=live:http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/17-Beta.RC4/Fedora/x86_64/os/LiveOS/squashfs.img"
\
    --name=f17t1 \
    --disk /export/vmimgs/f17t1.img,size=20 \
    --ram 2048 \
    --vcpus=2 \
    --check-cpu \
    --accelerate \
    --hvm \
    --location=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/17/x86_64/os/ \
    --nographics
#########################################################################################

=> Contents of my btrfs ks file <=
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$ cat ks-with-btrfs.ks
## A minimal fedora kickstart file

install
text
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
rootpw testpwd
firewall --service=ssh
authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512
selinux --enforcing
timezone --utc Asia/Kolkata
bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda  --append="rhgb console=tty0
console=ttyS0,115200 rd_NO_PLYMOUTH"
zerombr
clearpart --initlabel
part /boot --fstype ext4     --size=600
part /     --fstype btrfs     --size=14000


%packages
@core
@editors
%end
#########################################################################################


> 
> Thanks,
> /kashyap
>>
>> it was a bit better with live - I was able to play with 
>> filesystems without the installer crashing, however, I could not 
>> install on btrfs as the target filesystem has to match the live 
>> image
>>
>> there may have been some fixes since ...
>>
>> K.
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