On 10/16/2012 08:22 PM, David Lehman wrote: > On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 15:29 +0200, Dario Lesca wrote: >> Hi, I have download the last Fedora-18-Beta-TC4 to do some tests >> http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/18-Beta-TC4/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-18-Beta-TC4-x86_64-netinst.iso >> >> How to install it on a empty disk and use LVM (or create a software >> RaID)? >> >> From the new disk manager anaconda panel I did not understand how to >> create a new LVM partition and root and swap volume. >> > 1. Click the + button near the bottom of the screen. > 2. Enter '/' for mountpoint and whatever size you want. > 3. Hit Confirm or Add or whatever the dialog button is. > 4. Select the new mountpoint on the left side of the > screen. > 5. Click the + on the right side of the screen to edit > the device options. > 6. Select your desired device type from the available > options, which will include LVM. > > Repeat for swap. (Hint: enter "swap" as the mountpoint > when adding the device initially) Previous structured partitioning dialog was much better compared to this. Why it was removed in favor of this confusing thing? > > Various tips: > > Both the size and mountpoint entries in the "Add Mountpoint" dialog have > tooltips, so hover the mouse pointer on them if you are in doubt as to > how to specify these things. > > If you want the device you are adding to grow to occupy as much space as > is possible, leave the size field blank when adding the device > initially. When editing a defined device, if you want to make it as > large as possible, specify a size greater than the available space. The > installer will grow the device as close to your requested size as > possible. This also works when adding a new device. > > Devices are not treated as "growable" once they have been defined, so if > you define one device with a blank size and then try to define another > without adjusting the first one, it will probably fail due to > insufficient free space. This makes sense if you think about it, so > don't file a bug for it. > >> Is this features not yet supported or I have lost some HOWTO? > There's a very brief HOWTO above. I am hoping to produce a basic > beginners' guide at some point, but time is scarce. > >> Many thanks >> >> -- >> Dario Lesca - sip:dario@xxxxxxxxxx >> (Inviato dal mio Linux Fedora 17 Gnome3) >> > -- Richard Marko -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
