On 12/3/22 10:34, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
Installing Fedora 37 (over 35) from the live boot ISO. I had hoped to
preserve the /home partition, but I was unable to figure out how to do
that. I was unable, in fact, to figure out how to get custom
partitioning to work. My attempts were met with this
On Dec 3, 2022, at 13:34, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
>
> Installing Fedora 37 (over 35) from the live boot ISO. I had hoped to
> preserve the /home partition, but I was unable to figure out how to do
> that. I was unable, in fact, to figure out how to get custom
> partitioning to wo
Installing Fedora 37 (over 35) from the live boot ISO. I had hoped to
preserve the /home partition, but I was unable to figure out how to do
that. I was unable, in fact, to figure out how to get custom
partitioning to work. My attempts were met with this message:
Failed to find a suitabble stage
On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 11:56:52 -0500
Chris Murphy wrote:
> I only advise doing this if there's a problem (firmware confusion) with GPT.
I don't know if there would be a problem or not, I just wanted to
do everything the way I always did it because the way I install
fedora (to reduce down time) is b
On Sat, Nov 19, 2022, at 9:18 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> Installing fedora 37 from workstation live iso to a virtual machine.
>
> I couldn't find any way to partition a blank disk with a msdos
> partition table without using the advanced manual partitioning.
> Did I miss somet
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On Sat, Nov 19, 2022 at 8:19 PM Tom Horsley wrote:
> Installing fedora 37 from workstation live iso to a virtual machine.
>
> I couldn't find any way to partition a blank disk with a msdos
> partition table without using the advanced manual partitioning.
> Did I miss somet
Installing fedora 37 from workstation live iso to a virtual machine.
I couldn't find any way to partition a blank disk with a msdos
partition table without using the advanced manual partitioning.
Did I miss something, or is that the way it work
On Mon, 16 Aug 2021 16:10:55 +0530
Sreyan Chakravarty wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 10:26 AM Samuel Sieb wrote:
>
> > Which is why he was saying it should be at least 920 GiB, not 999.
> > 1TB ~= 954GiB
> >
>
> Exactly.
>
> Where is all the extra space going ?
>
> If /dev/sda1 is 512 Mi
On Mon, 2021-08-16 at 16:07 +0530, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 8:15 PM stan via users <
> users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > 1TB (10**12) != 1 TiB (2**40)
> >
> >
> My doubt was not for the size of the whole disk.
>
> My doubt was that why is the maxim
On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 10:26 AM Samuel Sieb wrote:
> Which is why he was saying it should be at least 920 GiB, not 999.
> 1TB ~= 954GiB
>
Exactly.
Where is all the extra space going ?
If /dev/sda1 is 512 MiB , /dev/sda2 is 1 GiB and the whole disk is 930 GiB
then the remaining root partition
On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 8:15 PM stan via users <
users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
>
> 1TB (10**12) != 1 TiB (2**40)
>
>
My doubt was not for the size of the whole disk.
My doubt was that why is the maximum size of the root partition only 829
GiB when the other 2 partitions are 1024 MiB and
On 2021-08-15 7:45 a.m., stan via users wrote:
On Sun, 15 Aug 2021 18:13:02 +0530
Sreyan Chakravarty wrote:
I have not specified any size for the root partition in the anaconda
installer, hence it will use all the remaining space, so it should be
at least 920 GiB for the root partition right ?
On 2021-08-15 5:43 a.m., Sreyan Chakravarty wrote:
I am doing a clean install of Fedora 33 and I can't understand why all
my space is not being used properly.
Why 33 and not 34?
I have a 1 TB SATA HDD.
I have selected Custom Partitioning with Thin LVM Provisioning.
These a
On Sun, 15 Aug 2021 18:13:02 +0530
Sreyan Chakravarty wrote:
> I am doing a clean install of Fedora 33 and I can't understand why
> all my space is not being used properly.
>
> I have a 1 TB SATA HDD.
>
> I have selected Custom Partitioning with Thin LVM Provisio
Hi,
I am doing a clean install of Fedora 33 and I can't understand why all my
space is not being used properly.
I have a 1 TB SATA HDD.
I have selected Custom Partitioning with Thin LVM Provisioning.
These are my configurations:
1 MiB for /boot/efi (EFI System Partition)
1024 Mi
enty releases ago, when I could
do tailored partitions, including iirc a separate /home; but then
something changed, somehow, and nowadays I always end up having to go
back to the automatic.
You still can do it, although with two disks it will help immensely if
you understand how partitioning wor
nothing for a long time, then booted F32. :-{ I broke the DVD
> with my bare hands; it shattered very satisfactorily. I'll go download
> and burn another. Stay tuned.
The new DVD did boot F33, and did let me start to install to hard
drive. I'm in Anaconda, ready to choose parti
I finally dealt with this by doing a F25 install with the separate /home
partition, then immediately after the install, using the lvremove, lvextend and
resize2fs commands to get rid of the /home partition and add the space to /,
basically as described at
https://serverfault.com/questions/52496
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Kari Koskinen wrote:
> (Partitioning is not something I'm familiar with or good at.)
>>
>
set up a virtual machine and practice. It is easy to assign mount points
to existing partitions once you have done it a time or two through the
cus
2016-11-21 0:14 GMT+02:00 Andre Robatino :
> > Use a Live version of GParted to do your partitioning first, then
> install.
>
> The machine currently has a clean install of F24 (dual-boot with Windows).
> Normally, the installer makes me delete the existing Fedora partitions
> Is there any fairly easy way to achieve this without custom partitioning
in the installer?
My experience has been that any distro will work with existing partitions (
I had a /Crypt partition which needed mounting install to install plus
custom lay out). Use gparted, or somesuch in your
Allegedly, on or about 20 November 2016, Andre Robatino sent:
> My understanding that after Branched reaches Beta, it's acceptable to
> ask on the user list
My understanding was that on this user list, you discuss the current
releases, only. Anything that's not a current (normal public) release
On Mon, 2016-11-21 at 01:15 +, Andre Robatino wrote:
> I'm not absolutely sure. It's definitely the policy on IRC with #fedora where
> /topic currently says "Fedora 23, 24, 25 Beta end-user support".
I never use IRC. No special reason, I just don't.
I was going to consult the Intro text for
I'm not absolutely sure. It's definitely the policy on IRC with #fedora where
/topic currently says "Fedora 23, 24, 25 Beta end-user support".
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On Sun, 2016-11-20 at 22:50 +, Andre Robatino wrote:
> >
> > Ask on the Fedora Test list. F25 is not yet released.
>
> My understanding that after Branched reaches Beta, it's acceptable to ask on
> the user list (and F25 is already Gold and will be officially released in 2
> days, at which
> Ask on the Fedora Test list. F25 is not yet released.
My understanding that after Branched reaches Beta, it's acceptable to ask on
the user list (and F25 is already Gold and will be officially released in 2
days, at which point it wouldn't be appropriate to ask on the test list anyway).
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On Sun, 2016-11-20 at 22:14 +, Andre Robatino wrote:
> >
> > Use a Live version of GParted to do your partitioning first, then install.
>
> The machine currently has a clean install of F24 (dual-boot with Windows).
> Normally, the installer makes me delete the existing
> Use a Live version of GParted to do your partitioning first, then install.
The machine currently has a clean install of F24 (dual-boot with Windows).
Normally, the installer makes me delete the existing Fedora partitions to free
up space, then it creates new partitions using the free sp
On 11/20/2016 01:39 PM, Andre Robatino wrote:
I'm trying to install 32-bit F25 Gold (RC1.3) from the netinst, with custom
partitioning. The only reason I need custom partitioning is to avoid creating a
separate /home partition. Unfortunately, due
tohttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.c
I'm trying to install 32-bit F25 Gold (RC1.3) from the netinst, with custom
partitioning. The only reason I need custom partitioning is to avoid creating a
separate /home partition. Unfortunately, due to
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1375732 , it won't let me e
Anaconda knows how to do it.
Select btrfs instead of lvm, and manual partitioning.
I did this on f21, and i am also quite certain i did it in f22 server alpha.
For my fresh f22 install on my laptop anaconda wanted to switch from bios to
uefi boot, so i used btrfs send to make a backup of /home
birger wrote:
> Look at your current fstab. Are there lines for / and /home? Do they use
> the subvol mount option?
>
Yes they do. My question is, does the f22 installer know how to install
into a btrfs subvol? What is the procedure? Do I need to create the new
root22 subvol before running
Look at your current fstab. Are there lines for / and /home? Do they use the
subvol mount option?
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>birger wrote:
>
>> With btrfs you create subvolumes within the same master volume.
>> The default is to have separate subvolumes
birger wrote:
> With btrfs you create subvolumes within the same master volume.
> The default is to have separate subvolumes for / and /home.
>
> When doing a new install you can create a new / with a new subvolume
> name within the same btrfs file system. rootfs-22 instead of just
> root for exa
With btrfs you create subvolumes within the same master volume.
The default is to have separate subvolumes for / and /home.
When doing a new install you can create a new / with a new subvolume
name within the same btrfs file system. rootfs-22 instead of just
root for example. That way you can moun
On 05/06/2015 09:08 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
> Last time, I setup 1 big 1TB btrfs partition. I'd like to do a re-install
> for f22, and I'm wishing now I had my home on it's own partition - since now
> I need to backup and restore my home (about 165GB).
>
> Or perhaps there is another way? shrink
Actually, re-partioning old machine.
Last time, I setup 1 big 1TB btrfs partition. I'd like to do a re-install
for f22, and I'm wishing now I had my home on it's own partition - since now
I need to backup and restore my home (about 165GB).
Or perhaps there is another way? shrink the 1TB btrfs
On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 11:49:34 -0600
Chris Adams wrote:
> Can we get a list admin to kill this thread? Two people calling each
> other names (and more) back and forth is really not that helpful.
Yeah.
I would have done it sooner but I have been busy and apparently so have
all the other list adm
Can we get a list admin to kill this thread? Two people calling each
other names (and more) back and forth is really not that helpful.
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On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 7:04 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 02/26/2015 07:26 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:24 PM, Ralf Corsepius
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 02/25/2015 09:30 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>>
If people aren't actually going to test what we have, and file bug
>>>
On 02/26/2015 07:26 AM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:24 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On 02/25/2015 09:30 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
If people aren't actually going to test what we have, and file bug
report,
If you want to see this thing fixed, tested and see bug reports, then
pu
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:24 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 02/25/2015 09:30 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>
>> If people aren't actually going to test what we have, and file bug
>> report,
>
> If you want to see this thing fixed, tested and see bug reports, then
> publish updates on a regular basis. M
On 02/25/2015 09:30 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
If people aren't actually going to test what we have, and file bug
report,
If you want to see this thing fixed, tested and see bug reports, then
publish updates on a regular basis. Monthly network installer iso
images, for instance.
Stability and
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 02/25/2015 03:27 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>
>> But no, you were just being a discourteous
>> person.
>
>
> Actually, until you made it clear that one of your main reasons for posting
> was to create dissension,
You keep making these grandiose,
On 02/25/2015 03:27 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
But no, you were just being a discourteous
person.
Actually, until you made it clear that one of your main reasons for
posting was to create dissension, I've been very, very careful to remain
civil and I intend to continue that way. I'm not saying
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:21 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 02/25/2015 03:15 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> No, my posts are designed to hold people accountable for things they
>> say, and insist they provide facts, not mere opinions. If that demand
>> just so happens to cause the conjecturing factless tro
On 02/25/2015 03:15 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 02/25/2015 02:55 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
THAT'S THE F'N DEFINITION OF TROLLING. FACTLESS!
No, trolling is making posts designed to get other people angry and cause
dissention, which you've alrea
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 02/25/2015 02:55 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>
>> THAT'S THE F'N DEFINITION OF TROLLING. FACTLESS!
>
>
> No, trolling is making posts designed to get other people angry and cause
> dissention, which you've already admitted to doing. No more food
On 02/25/2015 02:55 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
By all means unleash your billy goat, because no doubt it can conduct
a debate better than you have. Fine debaters, billy goats. I'll bet
your billy goat has bugs filed before you do at this rate.
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On 02/25/2015 02:55 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
THAT'S THE F'N DEFINITION OF TROLLING. FACTLESS!
No, trolling is making posts designed to get other people angry and
cause dissention, which you've already admitted to doing. No more food
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On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 02/25/2015 02:22 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>
>> No in fact I love being wrong, it means I get to learn something new
>> and I value that more than being right. But shadenfreude is delicious,
>> so I also like causing dissonance in others when I
as yet I haven't
even said what I would take away from the current GUI installer, only
that I wouldn't add any more functionality to it until what we have
now is better stabilized.
> Just because I don't currently need to create weird
> partitioning schemes doesn't mean that
On 02/25/2015 02:30 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
They are provided by default, they're hard dependencies by Anaconda.
Thank you; as I've said, it's been years since I've needed to do a clean
install of Fedora. As long as they're available, and as long as you can
make whatever selections of mount
On 02/25/2015 02:22 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
No in fact I love being wrong, it means I get to learn something new
and I value that more than being right. But shadenfreude is delicious,
so I also like causing dissonance in others when I think they're
wrong.
I see: you're simply a troll. Get back
bout Linux is the flexibility. You want
to take it away. Just because I don't currently need to create weird
partitioning schemes doesn't mean that I don't value it.
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On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> An excellent point. If the needed CLI tools are provided by default, that's
> all that's really needed, isn't it? (Having this mentioned either in the
> installer's instructions or in the on-line Documentation would be a Good
> Idea as well.)
On 02/25/2015 02:05 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
Why do you need a button in the installer? Why is ctrl-alt-f2 to get
to a shell insufficient?
An excellent point. If the needed CLI tools are provided by default,
that's all that's really needed, isn't it? (Having this mentioned
either in the inst
mise is refused because it hinges on something
that is false: "refusing to patch bugs if
you're using Expert Mode". What bugs? What refusal? What Expert Mode?
> As far as what corner cases I'm thinking about, when I first started moving
> from Windows to Linux I had a very
esn't refute me.
As far as what corner cases I'm thinking about, when I first started
moving from Windows to Linux I had a very odd partitioning layout for
Windows, because it allowed me to isolate various projects from each
other and limit the disk space they used. At that time,
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> An example could be something like this: a button which opens a shell with
> fdisk or gparted or similar, wich then jumps back to anaconda when
> partitioning
> is done, which then rereads the disk layout and let me enter the
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 02/25/2015 12:14 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>
>> One single button with 4000 lines of code behind it. You assume that
>> providing full control in a GUI just happens magically as if that work
>> is already done and the Anaconda folks are willfull
On 02/25/2015 01:44 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
Since 21 there is no "complete" version. About the only way to not
use live media is to use netinstall.
So? Next time I do a clean install, that's what I'll use.
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Joe Zeff wrote:
> I've had to do a clean install of Fedora, I've always used the complete
> install version
Since 21 there is no "complete" version. About the only way to not
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On 02/25/2015 01:14 PM, Mike Wohlgemuth wrote:
I'm not clear how this is better than just running fdisk off the live
image before running the installer, though.
Well, what about those people who don't install from a live image? When
I've had to do a clean install of Fedora, I've always used t
On Wed, 2015-02-25 at 12:56 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 02/25/2015 12:46 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> > An example could be something like this: a button which opens a shell with
> > fdisk or gparted or similar,
>
> I like that. If you don't know enough Linux to use those tools (or how
> to read and
On 02/25/2015 12:46 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote:
An example could be something like this: a button which opens a shell with
fdisk or gparted or similar,
I like that. If you don't know enough Linux to use those tools (or how
to read and understand whatever help they give) you probably don't know
en
On 02/25/2015 12:14 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
One single button with 4000 lines of code behind it. You assume that
providing full control in a GUI just happens magically as if that work
is already done and the Anaconda folks are willfully disabling things.
I doubt that. What we want is a way to
something like this: a button which opens a shell with
fdisk or gparted or similar, wich then jumps back to anaconda when partitioning
is done, which then rereads the disk layout and let me enter the mountpoints
would suffice. I'm sure that's fewer lines of code than the custom function
wh
meone's system than it is to strip out all the "expert" stuff and
not even offer it in the GUI to begin with.
Expert mode is kickstart and the CLI tools that do exactly what you want.
>
>>> But the converse applies: "A tool which doesn't suffice my needs, will
>&
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 1:44 AM, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> On 24.02.2015, jd1008 wrote:
>
>> Myself, I always know how to tell anaconda I will manually partition
>> the drive, without resorting to external tools.
>> But I cannot assume that ALL other people have the know-how to
>> manually partition th
converse applies: "A tool which doesn't suffice my needs, will not
be my choice and will loose me as a customer"
Yes, but it's a 60+ email thread and the people complaining about
Anaconda Manual Partitioning, especially the "custom isn't custom"
claim haven'
On 24.02.2015, jd1008 wrote:
> Myself, I always know how to tell anaconda I will manually partition
> the drive, without resorting to external tools.
> But I cannot assume that ALL other people have the know-how to
> manually partition their drives.
A simple solution would be to do whatever is n
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 11:40 AM, jd1008 wrote:
> Provide flexibilty for users who would want schemes other than anaconda's
> defaults and very limited partitioning options.
Flexibility is not inherently a public good in its own right. It comes
with costs, typically exponential.
Sto
On Feb 24, 2015 11:40 AM, "jd1008" wrote:
>
>
> On 02/23/2015 04:23 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote:
>>
>> On 02/23/2015 01:13 PM, jd1008 wrote:
>>>
>>> I think it does make sense, because users would like to custom
>>> partition the drive(s) and
On 02/23/2015 04:23 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote:
On 02/23/2015 01:13 PM, jd1008 wrote:
I think it does make sense, because users would like to custom
partition the drive(s) and live with that partitioning scheme for
many years. So, all such options should be made available.
A responder to this
send it in. Most
>> developers in this space do listen, but the normal rules of polite human
>> interaction and rational discourse do apply. "Because that's that I
>> want" isn't a good way to ask for someone else's time.
>
> But the converse appl
On 02/23/2015 10:15 PM, Pete Travis wrote:
On Feb 23, 2015 1:26 PM, "Chris Murphy"
I don't think it came up in
this thread, but I've seen partition ordering cited in this context as
well: user wants /boot on sda1, / on sda2, /home on sda3, /opt on sda5,
/usr/local on /sda6, and so on. In mo
On 02/23/2015 05:36 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
Right. And I'm still waiting to hear, what ought to be much easier
than answering your questions, examples of what layout the installer
won't let them create; or won't use once precreated elsewhere.
Fair enough. For the record, I don't think it does
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote:
>
> What is the benefit of having anaconda worry about *creating* these
> partitioning schemes (for lack of a better term)?
>
> Wouldn't it be better to ask people to use the regular tools in a live
> media environment fo
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Andrew R Paterson
wrote:
> Hang on there Chris, (new thread really)
> why do you think using a mirror as a backup is a bad idea?
I'm not saying it's a bad idea. I'm just denying it's a backup. What
you have is a degraded array on the shelf that's at best an incide
On 02/23/2015 01:13 PM, jd1008 wrote:
I think it does make sense, because users would like to custom
partition the drive(s) and live with that partitioning scheme for
many years. So, all such options should be made available.
A responder to this thread mentioned that there should be an
"e
fs
> subvolume, which is on a volume that / is also going to be created
> which normally mandates a reformat which might suggest /home gets
> obliterated, but the installer instead creates a new subvolume for /
> instead of reformatting, and reuses the existing /home.
>
> > So I&
dozens of /home reuse. It even includes /home on a Btrfs
subvolume, which is on a volume that / is also going to be created
which normally mandates a reformat which might suggest /home gets
obliterated, but the installer instead creates a new subvolume for /
instead of reformatting, and reuses the
On 23.02.2015, Pete Travis wrote:
> "Because that's that I want" isn't a good way to ask for someone else's time.
I didn't ask for someone else's time, but for an explanation why there is a
custom mode which indeed isn't custom . I do not want somebody to implement
something
which fits my speci
On 02/23/2015 01:54 PM, Andrew R Paterson wrote:
Neurotic I might be, but that's the way I do an "upgrade" because I don't
trust the installer - yum upgrade - fedup or whatever its next incarnation
might be!
Just as a side-note: I've never had fedup fail me on my laptop or work
correctly on my
On 02/23/2015 01:52 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
So if there's no bug citation I'm considering this in the realm of
conjecture. It's a unicorn.
I'd prefer to call it a Black Swan: something that shouldn't ever
happen, but not quite as impossible as we think.
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On 02/23/2015 01:48 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
Anaconda's supported layouts (usage of device types, and creating
volume associated with mountpoints) is not any different among the
various medias available.
There's a slight misunderstanding here. Having two versions of
anaconda, one for Live medi
upgrade from one version of LINUX to another (initially slackware
> > but so far fedora 9 - 20) that I can minimise the risk of (anaconda or
> > whatever the current installer might be) deciding in its wisdom whilst
> > doing the partitioning that it thinks best, blowing away my /opt a
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 02/23/2015 01:03 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>
>> And you have backups right? Because by definition it's not important
>> unless you have backups.
>
>
> First, I'd like to point out that just because the installer isn't supposed
> to modify your p
ith mountpoints) is not any different among the
various medias available. Manual Partitioning behaves exactly the
same. What will be new in Fedora 22 is, guided partitioning will offer
different defaults for the different products. So you'll need to be
more specific what limitations you're t
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> This has been a discussion for quite a while over on the devel list (the
> shortcomings/obfuscation in anaconda). I'd highly suggest that you put
> in your $0.02 over there. I have for quite a while but I guess I don't
> carry a lot of weigh
On 02/23/2015 01:22 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
I mean... fucking seriously. I'm going to go buy a bucket and a mallet.
Back when I did senior tech support for an ISP, we used headsets with
long cords so that we could move around during a call. I always
arranged things so that I was near a pilla
On 02/23/2015 01:03 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
And you have backups right? Because by definition it's not important
unless you have backups.
First, I'd like to point out that just because the installer isn't
supposed to modify your partitions without your explicitly selecting
them doesn't mean t
it removed, and c.) the installer produces a dialog
> indicating it's going to be deleted, along with a cancel button, and
> d.) the installer produces a summary of changes at the very end of the
> Manual Partitioning process THAT FUCKING HIGHLIGHTS THIS SHIT IN RED
> LETTERS indica
On 02/23/2015 12:56 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
If you really want partitions, why aren't you doing this with gparted
then? What's the problem with that workflow? Why do you need it
integrated in Anaconda?
One of the constraints on what anaconda can do comes from space
limitations, especially on t
mörgåsbord
> before a total rewrite: everyone is used to their specialty dish in
> the buffet and will get totally pissed off when their stinky dish no
> one else will touch isn't offered in the revamp. Unsurprising.
>
> The ordinary user use case should be bullet proof. I argued
>
ould
report that to the user. So there's some missing error checking (which
may or may not actually be the installer's fault); and another bug if
that error checking doesn't have a practical way of being implemented,
the installer needs to simply disallow non-empty /boot as well as o
- 20) that I can minimise the risk of (anaconda or whatever the
> current installer might be) deciding in its wisdom whilst doing the
> partitioning that it thinks best, blowing away my /opt and/home partitions -
It's comments like this that make me want to grab a metal bucket, put
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