option to install extlinux to a partition???

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 22:58 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:

> I just started an F19 net installation using extlinux kernel option 
> specifically to see what happens here. I'm already hung, not having found any 
> detailed instructions how to proceed through Anaconda after initializing it 
> this way. After selecting minimal install I went to destination, where I 
> clicked "Full disk summary and bootloader", found the selected disks window 
> and wondered what to do next. "Do not install bootloader" suggests exactly 
> what it says will be the result, which I do not want. Actually clicking 
> changes the button to "Set as Boot Device", which is even more ambiguous WRT 
> the goal of getting extlinux onto the / target partition. I clicked set as 
> and proceeded.

Remember, extlinux is an unsupported 'secret option'. There has been
precisely zero work to reflect it in the 'Full disk summary and
bootloader' UI. The UI is for the 'normal' grub2 installation path. I'm
not sure anyone's even thought about what it does wrt extlinux. Your
guess is as good as mine. If I were you I'd just not go into it at all.

> I got the target partition selected, clicked "+" button, selected /, clicked 
> to finish the popup without filling in the size of the preselected partition, 
> clicked the format button, selected type EXT4, typed a / in mount point, 

You just did the same thing twice.

> clicked label field, and "This file system does not support labels" pops up. 
> I went ahead and typed one in anyway. Meanwhile at the bottom is the "Failed 
> to add new device. Click for details." message, which when clicked tells me 
> not enough space on disks, which unequivocally untrue. I tried again, this 
> time not skipping the desired space field in the micro mount point window, 
> even though its necessity is counter intuitive being that I already selected 
> an existing 4.8GB partition to configure.

As Chris said, you are not 'configuring an existing partition' when you
use the + button. You are creating a new storage volume. You configure
an existing partition by selecting it and editing the properties over on
the right hand side.
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