Re: Missing Functionality in New Anaconda

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El mié, 23-01-2013 a las 13:59 +0000, Dave Cross escribió:
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/

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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:
  1. Tick in the little line below where says:  "I don't need help for..."
  2. Than press Forward and select the partition to install system and tick on  "Format".  Mount point:  /
  3. Select my  /home  partition  with Mount point as  /home  and  nothing more.   Don't touch nor tick anything.
  4. Select Swap and tick on  "Format".  Mount point:  Swap.
  5. Check that everything is OK.
  6. Press on a button below that says:  "Apply".  You have to do this 'apply'  on every partition you will use.
  7. Then press "Finnish"  (or something like that)  and if you're lucky and everything is fine your installation will start without problems.
Note that I'm translating from Spanish install.



Hope this can help you,
Lailah

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