In aticipation that we will have to live with efi and gparted disks
"real soon now", I decided to give the gparted a try first. Before
actually commiting to it on real hardware, I though I would do it on a
KVM virtual.
So I define a simple KVM kickstart install with a biosboot, swap, and
btrfs partitions. Booted F19 DVD-ISO and sp[ecified gpt ks=http://
The install went just find and the system booted just fine.
Now, before proceeding to real hardware I want to make sure that I can
re-install another system (except it will be F19 again). So I specify
the swap and btrfs partitions --noformat and a different name for the
root subvol
This did not work! Anaconda would not accept either --onpart=UUID=...
or --onpart=vda2/3 for the partition specification (gpt was specified on
the cmdline for the kernel). Anaconda claims that 'No preexisting
partition with the name "vda2" was found'.
OK, so how do you specify a pre-existing gparted partition? Is this a
bug? Or the lack of a "feature"? Or perhaps some special (undocumented)
parameter that I need to specify?
I know that anaconda has been supporting installation into gparted
partitions for some time because gparted is used for really, really big
disks and I assume that someone might want to reinstall into existing
partitions.
Gene
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