About that installer...

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Mon Mar 11 09:51:20 UTC 2013


Allegedly, on or about 11 March 2013, Dan Irwin sent:
> The installer won't let me install. It won't find free space. It won't
> shrink partitions.
> 
> I even dropped to a shell, and used fdisk to blow away my windows 7
> partition, and the installer still doesn't work properly! 

I haven't tried Fedora 18, but are you getting snagged by the old issue
of users think an formatted partition is "free space," but the installer
wants to find completely unused space on the drive (i.e. don't make a
new partition, delete one, and leave it deleted).

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