On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 04:06:38PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > I have never figured out why you people hate fdisk so much. Back when you > called it disk druid or some such it was a PIMA, and while the face is now a > lot prettier, it is just as terminally broken in its heart as ever. I believe Anaconda uses parted these days. > And all you have to do is get past the 199meg limit for /boot that the F8 > installer insisted on. Use fdisk to set it up bigger, and the installer > would not recognize it. I just got out my Fedora 8 installation DVD and popped it into a virtual machine to test how the installation worked. Here's what I think happened to you: When you select "Create a custom layout," the installer pre-populates a starting partition layout for you -- a slightly less than 200 MB /boot partition, and the rest of the drive allocated for a single LVM physical partition, containing a single LVM volume group, with a swap partition and a root (/) partition, which most people would then set up for all the other partitions as needed. If you don't delete that LVM partition, which in the layout starts right after the pre-set /boot partition, you can't set the /boot partition any higher -- because there's nowhere left to increase into. If you delete the LVM volume group and then the physical partition, and then delete the /boot partition and truly start from scratch, you can size that /boot partition as high as you like. I just ran the installation this way with a 400 MB /boot partition and it worked like a charm. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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