Installing F22: MUST format root?!?!?!

Rick Stevens ricks at alldigital.com
Wed Dec 16 00:22:30 UTC 2015


On 12/15/2015 04:01 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> I bought a 32gb class 10 sd card to run Fedora on a laptop where I don't
> want to touch the hard drive.
>
> After a bit of reading it seems it's a good idea to make sure the
> partition and filesystem are setup to get the most out of it (mainly
> around block side and erase boundaries)
>
> So I booted to Fedora 22 Workstation and before running the installer
> setup a /boot and "/" partition and formatted them. Now when I'm trying
> to configure disks it's telling me that "You must create a new file
> system on the root device."
>
> WTF?!? So what if I want to format the partition with specific options?
> Specifically stride and stripe-width...

You did select "I will configure partitioning", right? I'm trying to
look at the installation manual, but the gang at FedoraProject seem
to have screwed up the docs stuff...I keep getting 403 forbidden errors.

First rpmfusion goes down, now the docs are hosed. What is this, Friday
the 13th? No, it's Tuesday, the 15th! WTH?!
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