On 02/22/2013 03:45 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Jim wrote:
F17 > F18
I have finally figured out how to install F18 and saving my existing
/home
partition, so as not to loose my home directory.
But I would be Damd to explain how in a email , I would just confuse
the H out
of everyone and myself. the guy at Fedora that came up with this
installer, must
have done the coding at the local Bar when he was totally Shit Faced.
Does anyone know of a website that shows the installing of f18 , I
checked all
over the Internet and youtube for this type of f18 install with no luck.
That part was easy, choose a custom layout, pick the partition on the
left pane, and set the desired mount point.
Its not quite that simple. I did exactly that without destroying my home
partition, but the installer kept producing errors about there not being
enough free space to do the install. The installer seemed to be
incapable of determining that because I selected "format" on the boot
and root partitions there would definitely be enough space to install.
Also, once I used gparted to reformat the boot and root partitions, the
installer still refused to do the install if UEFI was active complaining
that it required the boot partition to be 'gpt', but the installer
provides no means of setting this. It seems extremely strange that the
installer is UEFI sensitive when it installs grub not grub2, plus I was
installing from what appeared to be a live dvd, in terms of at boot it
provided a choice of booting into a live Fedora 18 or installing Fedora
18, and at boot time the dvd also says that UEFI is not active in its
environment, so I am confused as to what the install is trying to do.
The only way I could get the install to proceed was to switch to legacy
devices only in the bios, instead of having both with UEFI first.
Also, is Fedora 18 beta? I have all sorts of problems installing the
proprietary nvidia driver from the rpmfusion directories as the install
does not remove the nouveau driver from the initrd of any kernels
installed from the repositories, but does remove it from the initrd of
the kernel installed from the dvd. I have uninstall the repository
kernels and then reinstall them so that I can get to the point of
starting xorg. The nvidia and nouveau drivers cannot coexist, I had the
same problem in fedora 17 as well, but I did not seem to have the
problem with Mandriva, but Mandriva provided the driver in their
repositories.
regards,
Steve
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