Re: Use existing Partition without formatting when installing F18 ?

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On 01/19/2013 12:41 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Oncaphillis wrote:
>> Previous to Fedora 18 I used to share the /boot/ partition
>> /dev/sda1 between two systems (e.g F17 and F16) Now It only seems
>> to be possible to format partitions before you can add it to the
>> installation.
>> 
>> Any trick around this ?
>> 
> Haven't seen one yet, if there's a way to save stuff other than
> install without it and hack fstab after you get up, I haven't seen
> it. Be of good cheer, someone will find a way, or release an
> install disk with a sane partition manager, or something.
> 
> Read some of the resent threads, lots of us have this problem.
> 

I have to agree Oncaphillis, it's really difficult to find out and
select the right way to install F18 without overwriting the
information of some partitions and the disk partitioning scheme of
target disk(s). In one case, I was successful, in another one not (and
lost all info).

Kind regards

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Joachim Backes <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

https://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes

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