Yesterday I installed Fedora 19 on my workstation. I skipped Fedora 18 entirely as the installation GUI didn't give me any confidence I could do my usual thing.
My usual thing is to install each new version into different logical volumes than the current OS. In this case the current OS was installed in /dev/mapper/ws1-root1 as "/", /dev/mapper/ws1-var1 as "/var" and /dev/mapper/ws1-home as "/home". I reformatted (ext4) two logical volumes, /dev/mapper/ws1-root as "/" and /dev/mapper/ws1-var as "/var" from the previous OS (Fedora 16) before attempting to install Fedora 19 from an NFS share of the Fedora 19 ISO. I do not reformat or replace the home volume. I chose to install KDE and most of the package groups (1722 files). The installation went along well as far as I know as I didn't stick around to watch, but when I returned to the machine it appeared to be stuck on "installing bootloader". I don't remember if it was "configuring" or "installing" the bootloader. I noted that the action indicator was not turning, but as I didn't know how long it had been doing that I gave it another hour or so. In the end I had to physically reset the machine as it ignored the keyboard. I did that with a bit of trepidation, as I feared my system was not going to reboot. However it did boot, though into Fedora 17 (yeah), which is the best "failed" installation I ever experienced :-) I can say for sure that this time I found the installation UI (anaconda?) not only easy to use, but pretty darn good looking as well. Of course, like many on this list I also found it to be less flexible when selecting what I want installed. Like you can choose only one desktop environment, and there doesn't appear any way to select other OS partitions at boot time, so I must assume that would have happened automatically. if it didn't fail. Reported bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=981358 Emmett -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
