I don't know about your other issues, but I'll try to answer the ones below. On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alright, so I'll do without swap for now. Next thing the installer > complains that I cannot put my root partition into LVM2. This works just > fine with Grub2, and isn't Fedora supposed to be cutting edge? Anyway, > so I try to create a primary /boot partition instead. > Fedora uses a patched version of GRUB Legacy. It can read / partitions on LVM but the /boot partition still needs to be ext* on disk. > There is 128 MB of free space. I tell the installer to use all the space > that's available. It claims that there is not enough space left. > In Fedora we use an application called preupgrade for distro upgrades. During those upgrades the installer downloads the new kernel images to /boot before the upgrade is performed. On previous versions there has been problems where the /boot was not large enough and upgrades failed. So from F12 the recommended /boot size is 500MB to avoid such issues. > At this point I just got too annoyed. Am I just extremely unlucky or is > a Fedora installation always that painful? I hope I answered a few of your issues. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
