I've installed the Fedora-18 KDE Live CD on a USB stick, and am able to boot my laptop from this.
But I find the "Install to Hard Disk" facility greatly disimproved compared to F-17.
My main gripe is that there appears to be no way to preserve the current disk partitioning. The "Custom Install" option seems to have disappeared.
I have a spare partition on my Fedora-17/Windows disk, and I want to install F-18 on that. Is this no longer possible? If not, why not?
I absolutely do not want to use the "Automatic Partioning" which seems to be all I am offered. Sorry, Mr Fedora, I have absolutely no idea what you are going to do to my hard disk, and I am not in the habit of "buying a pig in a poke".
Timothy Murphy wrote:
I absolutely do not want to use the "Automatic Partioning" which seems to be all I am offered. Sorry, Mr Fedora, I have absolutely no idea what you are going to do to my hard disk, and I am not in the habit of "buying a pig in a poke".
You need to send this complaint to the Anaconda developers. We KDE packagers cannot do anything about this.
Kevin Kofler
Kevin Kofler wrote:
Timothy Murphy wrote:
I absolutely do not want to use the "Automatic Partioning" which seems to be all I am offered. Sorry, Mr Fedora, I have absolutely no idea what you are going to do to my hard disk, and I am not in the habit of "buying a pig in a poke".
You need to send this complaint to the Anaconda developers. We KDE packagers cannot do anything about this.
Thanks for the response.
But I see eg from KDE bugzilla (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/) Bug 902328 - Costom Disk Formatting can corrupt multiboot system that Custom Disk Partitioning is possible on some F-18 installations (presumably the full DVD installation).
So it seems that the KDE Live CD uses a cut-down version of Anaconda, or perhaps does not use Anaconda at all, since I am only offered "Automatic Partitioning"?
On 01/24/2013 07:02 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Kevin Kofler wrote:
Timothy Murphy wrote:
I absolutely do not want to use the "Automatic Partioning" which seems to be all I am offered. Sorry, Mr Fedora, I have absolutely no idea what you are going to do to my hard disk, and I am not in the habit of "buying a pig in a poke".
You need to send this complaint to the Anaconda developers. We KDE packagers cannot do anything about this.
Thanks for the response.
But I see eg from KDE bugzilla (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/) Bug 902328 - Costom Disk Formatting can corrupt multiboot system that Custom Disk Partitioning is possible on some F-18 installations (presumably the full DVD installation).
So it seems that the KDE Live CD uses a cut-down version of Anaconda, or perhaps does not use Anaconda at all, since I am only offered "Automatic Partitioning"?
Live images are "special" in that the system partition type cannot be specified since it's just going to be a dd'd (bit-for-bit) copy of what's on the live image (ext4).
-- rex
Rex Dieter wrote:
So it seems that the KDE Live CD uses a cut-down version of Anaconda, or perhaps does not use Anaconda at all, since I am only offered "Automatic Partitioning"?
Live images are "special" in that the system partition type cannot be specified since it's just going to be a dd'd (bit-for-bit) copy of what's on the live image (ext4).
But I'm pretty sure I installed Fedora-17 from the KDE Live CD by clicking on "Install to Hard Disk", followed by Custom Install. Have I mis-remembered this?
Rex Dieter wrote:
Live images are "special" in that the system partition type cannot be specified since it's just going to be a dd'd (bit-for-bit) copy of what's on the live image (ext4).
Actually, some one wrote on the devel list that it now uses rsync to copy the file system, so you can now use a different file system than the one used on the live image.
Kevin Kofler
On 01/24/2013 07:11 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Rex Dieter wrote:
Live images are "special" in that the system partition type cannot be specified since it's just going to be a dd'd (bit-for-bit) copy of what's on the live image (ext4).
Actually, some one wrote on the devel list that it now uses rsync to copy the file system, so you can now use a different file system than the one used on the live image.
Oh, neat. :)
-- rex
Timothy Murphy wrote:
So it seems that the KDE Live CD uses a cut-down version of Anaconda, or perhaps does not use Anaconda at all, since I am only offered "Automatic Partitioning"?
It uses liveinst, which is part of the Anaconda package. If liveinst doesn't offer manual partitioning, that's a bug or missing feature in Anaconda.
Kevin Kofler