Missing Functionality in New Anaconda

[Lailah]

El mié, 23-01-2013 a las 13:59 +0000, Dave Cross escribió:

> I think that the new Anaconda is missing some functionality that was
> previously available. If it's not missing, then it's really well
> hidden and I'd appreciate some help tracking it down.
> 
> As I mentioned in a previous email, FedUp hasn't worked on my laptop
> for reasons that I don't really understand. So I decided to go to Plan
> B which is an approach that I've used for many previous Fedora
> upgrades.
> 
> I have a separate /home partition which contains all of my important
> data. Therefore I want to do a new installation of Fedora 18 but reuse
> the existing /home partition. In the old Anaconda that was simple. I'd
> just use set up a customised partition layout, telling it to reuse the
> /home partition and to do what it wanted with the rest of the disk.
> But I can't work out how to do that on the new version of Anaconda.
> The new partitioning sets up this artificial distinction between the
> old Fedora 17 installation and the new Fedora 18 one and I can't see
> how to tell the new installation to use a partition from the old one.
> 
> I accept that this probably isn't a really common use case, but it
> seems a shame to lose functionality that some of your users are using.
> 
> If I'm being stupid and missing an obvious way to this, then can
> someone please put me out of my misery and tell me what to do.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dave...
> 
> p.s. It seems I'm not the only person trying (and failing) to use this
> approach - http://mocktech.com/blog/2013/01/fedora-18-update-beginning-to-damage-my-calm/
> 
> -- 
> Dave Cross :: dave at dave.org.uk
> http://dave.org.uk/
> @davorg


Hello!

            I have a separate /home like you.  What I did, as fair I can
remember, is this:

     1. Tick in the little line below where says:  "I don't need help
        for..."
     2. Than press Forward and select the partition to install system
        and tick on  "Format".  Mount point:  /
     3. Select my  /home  partition  with Mount point as  /home  and
        nothing more.   Don't touch nor tick anything.
     4. Select Swap and tick on  "Format".  Mount point:  Swap.
     5. Check that everything is OK.
     6. Press on a button below that says:  "Apply".  You have to do
        this 'apply'  on every partition you will use.
     7. Then press "Finnish"  (or something like that)  and if you're
        lucky and everything is fine your installation will start
        without problems.

Note that I'm translating from Spanish install.



Hope this can help you,
Lailah
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