On 24 March 2014 16:37, Chris Murphy wrote:
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> On Mar 5, 2014, at 8:58 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
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>> /dev/sda5 / 16GB <- this is where I want to put Fedora; it used to be
>> elementary's /
>
> Is this a plain partition, or is it an LVM physical volume?
Plain MBR partition. I never ever use LVM
On Mar 5, 2014, at 8:58 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
>
> /dev/sda5 / 16GB <- this is where I want to put Fedora; it used to be
> elementary's /
Is this a plain partition, or is it an LVM physical volume?
> I managed to get the Fedora installer to format sda5 but then, having
> 16GB of / + 150GB of
"Frode, maillister" writes:
> The designers/developers have apparently decided to prioritize ease of
> use at the expense of some of the "advanced" features, thinking that
> those who do things differently know how to do it.
They have managed to create an installer for Fedora that cannot be used
On 5 March 2014 23:55, Tom Horsley wrote:
> I install in a virtual machine where nothing can hurt my real
> system, then I use the guestfs tools to copy the new installation
> to the exact partitions I want it in, edit the fstab and grub
> configs to point to the new partitions, and boot with the
On 5 March 2014 23:42, Fred Smith wrote:
> Well, in my opinion, if ease of use was their goal, then they missed
> it by a mile. Particularly in the disk partitioning section, they leave
> you to stumble around trying to figure out how to step thru it with
> no guidance. for example (from memory),
>Is it me, or is the installer just not flexible enough to cope with
>this sort of scenario?
I've worked out a wonderful way to install fedora these days
so that I no longer have to worry about what in the Sam Hill
anaconda is likely to do to my computer:
I install in a virtual machine where no
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 11:02:42PM +0100, Frode, maillister wrote:
> On 05. march 2014 16:58, Liam Proven wrote:
> >Is it me, or is the installer just not flexible enough to cope with
> >this sort of scenario?
>
> The designers/developers have apparently decided to prioritize ease
> of use at the
On 5 March 2014 22:02, Frode, maillister wrote:
> The new Anaconda will not let you install grub2 on a partition
Aha!
> but you can
> choose to not install a boot manager at all if you don't want the mbr to be
> overwritten.
Yes, I tried that. That's when it collapsed in a pile of Python error
On 05. march 2014 16:58, Liam Proven wrote:
So I need to tell Fedora to put root on sda5 and /home on sda10 and
use sda8 for swap. I want the bootloader on sda5 as well. I'm
currently using Ubuntu's GRUB, as it's my primary OS, but I plan to
replace this with a standalone boot manager.
The new
On 5 March 2014 18:21, Fred Smith wrote:
> I don't think the "new" Anaconda is as flexibled as the old one,
I wouldn't know, TBH!
> so
> it may well not allow you to do what you wanbt,
Ah, good, so it is not just me being dumb then? :¬)
> But what I DO know
> is that everything in the new inst
On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 03:58:48PM +, Liam Proven wrote:
> Hi there. First post from someone returning to the RH family fold for
> the first time since about 1996-1999, when I was a RHL user (v4 - v6
> full time on my servers, v7/8/9 reviewed for various magazines - then
> I switched to Caldera
Hi there. First post from someone returning to the RH family fold for
the first time since about 1996-1999, when I was a RHL user (v4 - v6
full time on my servers, v7/8/9 reviewed for various magazines - then
I switched to Caldera, then to SUSE and then to Ubuntu when it came
out.)
I'm trying to t
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