Am 21.09.2013 17:10, schrieb Phil Dobbin: > On 09/21/2013 03:55 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> Am 21.09.2013 16:35, schrieb poma: >>> On 21.09.2013 15:57, Phil Dobbin wrote: >>>> Hi, all. >>>> >>>> I've just tried to install Fedora 19 over the top of CentOS I.(e. >>>> erasing Centos) & I can't figure out how to do it. There's no option for >>>> erase & install as with other distros. >>>> >>>> Could anybody point me in the right direction? >>>> >>>> Cheers, Phil... >>> >>> Can you point us in the right direction? :) >>> It's not so clear what and with what you want to do install >> >> what is not clear in "Anaconda"? >> it's the Fedora installer >> >> well, with F18 the whole thing was rewritten and hase a >> complete different UI - look on the whole screen for >> possible switches to display extended options >> >> there is for sure somewhere manual partitioning >> >> luckily never faced Anaconda past F14 - god save yum upgrades >> > > Most of the manual options are greyed out & are pretty useless AFAIK you need to answer a few questions in the installer to get different options enabled - no idea what all the developers talking about modern human interfaces are smoking > I suppose I could re-install 17 & upgrade via yum to 18 then 19 > from there but it's a hell of way to do things IMO would be a solution > I suppose the netinstall is the way to go... you can also make a minimal install with the DVD and so following dist-upgrades with yum are tiny and fast - i had to do this somewhere around F17 because the F17 installer insisted in GPT crap and di not allow me to manually specify teh 3 RAID paritions i wanted - after it was solved i found somewhere the kernel-param to disable the GPT nonsense nobody needs on 1 TB drives if you completly want to delete the existing CentOS boot the LiveCD and opena tmerinal "su -" -> "yum install gparted" -> make the partitioning at your own - i am working this way for more than 10 years because i never trusted *nay* os-installer enough to play around with my partitions except on blank machines
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