I think that the new Anaconda is missing some functionality that was previously available. If it's not missing, then it's really well hidden and I'd appreciate some help tracking it down. As I mentioned in a previous email, FedUp hasn't worked on my laptop for reasons that I don't really understand. So I decided to go to Plan B which is an approach that I've used for many previous Fedora upgrades. I have a separate /home partition which contains all of my important data. Therefore I want to do a new installation of Fedora 18 but reuse the existing /home partition. In the old Anaconda that was simple. I'd just use set up a customised partition layout, telling it to reuse the /home partition and to do what it wanted with the rest of the disk. But I can't work out how to do that on the new version of Anaconda. The new partitioning sets up this artificial distinction between the old Fedora 17 installation and the new Fedora 18 one and I can't see how to tell the new installation to use a partition from the old one. I accept that this probably isn't a really common use case, but it seems a shame to lose functionality that some of your users are using. If I'm being stupid and missing an obvious way to this, then can someone please put me out of my misery and tell me what to do. Thanks, Dave... p.s. It seems I'm not the only person trying (and failing) to use this approach - http://mocktech.com/blog/2013/01/fedora-18-update-beginning-to-damage-my-calm/ -- Dave Cross :: dave@xxxxxxxxxxx http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg
Hello!
I have a separate /home like you. What I did, as fair I can remember, is this:
- Tick in the little line below where says: "I don't need help for..."
- Than press Forward and select the partition to install system and tick on "Format". Mount point: /
- Select my /home partition with Mount point as /home and nothing more. Don't touch nor tick anything.
- Select Swap and tick on "Format". Mount point: Swap.
- Check that everything is OK.
- Press on a button below that says: "Apply". You have to do this 'apply' on every partition you will use.
- Then press "Finnish" (or something like that) and if you're lucky and everything is fine your installation will start without problems.
Hope this can help you,
Lailah
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