On Monday 31 March 2008 17:49:59 Andrew Farris wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
> I tried to install the Fedora 9 Beta (CD version) onto the ancient laptop
> that serves as my tester. The problem started when I got to the
> partitioning.
>
> The drive in question is small, with and existing install of Mandriva
> using hda5 for / and hda6 for /home. The choices do not seem to include
> an option to keep the partitions, simply reformatting one or both, so I
> tried the custom partitioning. It asked me where I wanted to install,
> but simply offered hda. I don't remember clearly (I'll check later if
> necessary) but I think there was an Advanced button or similar. I hit
> that and got an exception fault. Of course the network is not set up at
> that point, so sening it anywhere is out of the question. Nor could it
> be saved, as inserting a usb stick is not recognised at that point.
>
> I then started afresh, with a usb stick in place at bootup. Sure enough
> it was offered as one of the available disks. However, it was still
> impossible to save the bug report to the stick.
>
> 1 - I'm greatly concerned that it didn't appear to see the existing
> partitions.
>
> 2 - is there any way at all that I could have captured that output?
If you insert a usb drive you can then go to VT2 and mount it manually
(mkdir, mount) and copy any output, logs, etc, to the flash drive.
I didn't think that would be an option, so early in the process. OK - I've
just downloaded the LiveCD. I won't get to install it tonight, but I'll try
it tomorrow, and have the flash drive ready.
Anne