On 07.04.2013 03:43, Dan Thurman wrote: > > I was not able to install F18 via LiveCD/Anaconda > as it appears to insist on (unformatted) free space. > > I was able to install F17 with anaconda, which > allowed me to specify the /boot and / software > destination having two partitions wiped out by > newly reformatting them while installing. > Blivet[1] ain't Disk Druid. ;) > In F18, one has a choice to choose LVM, BRFS(?), or B-tree file system(BTRFS)[3] ;) > Partition schemes, so I choose the Partition > scheme, checked that I wanted no help, to > manually modify and/or define the software > destination and hovering the cursor over 2nd > button, the highlight says: "Please wait... software > metadata is being loaded" and nothing happens for > over 30 minutes of waiting. Mamma mia! :) > I do not want to use the 'reclaim' button because > this might mess up the partition table and screw > the entire disk. http://goo.gl/Z8XSW Notice the lower right corner. > I also noted that while waiting, I was able to set > the locale, but not allowed to change the date, > time nor 12/24 hour selections, they are greyed out, > even though I was able to do this on the time/date > menubar but this has nothing to do with anaconda. http://goo.gl/jWDbr Notice the upper right corner. > So, what can I do at this point? Blivet[1] is still in diapers[2]. Therefore, you can attempt to install with the recent version. http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/19-Alpha-TC5/Fedora/i386/iso/Fedora-19-Alpha-TC5-i386-netinst.iso http://goo.gl/MN3xc ;) poma [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Blivet [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=blivet [3] https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page -- 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
