On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 15:05:36 +0000 Timothy Murphy <gayleard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Joachim Backes wrote: > > > 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). > > Is the Custom Install option, > where you specify the partition layout you want, > no longer available? > It didn't seem to be offered with the F-18 KDE Live CD, > after clicking on "Install to Hard Disk". In the LXDE case, there is a counter-intuitive button you have to click to get to this "partition layout" stage after the second screen, but not much came out of it for me. In my case, I have a 10GB / partition currently hosting F17, a swap partition with 2x memory space, a small 2GB /tmp partition, a smaller /usr/local partition and a giant /home partition. What the installer offered (custom install be damned) was to install everything in the free space. I tried erasing the /, the /tmp, the swap, etc but it still would not let me decide on how much I was allowed for these. Specifically, no matter what I tried, I got a 5GB partition for / (too small IMO for the future), a 4 GB for swap, and 1 GB for /tmp. Theoretically erasing the partitions to obtain free space appeared to have no effect. I tried with LXDE spin: all this went away when I decided to bite the bullet, backed up /home and then reformatted the whole thing. However, I do not want to do this for all my other computers so was wondering what options I have. I may mention that all my partitions are ext4: this may be a contributing factor? In any case, how do I get around this? Ranjan ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D MARINE AQUARIUM SCREENSAVER - Watch dolphins, sharks & orcas on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/marineaquarium -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
