On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Till Maas <opensource@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:47:07AM -0400, Digimer wrote: >> On 03/12/2013 12:41 AM, Charles Zeitler wrote: >> >i don't like giving up control over my machine (partitioning), >> >so i won't be upgrading to Fedora 18. >> >i'll watch the web site for a return to sanity. >> > >> >charles zeitler >> >> Setting aside the drama, you can manually partition F18. > > Unless anaconda crashes (live image) or does not recognise the > partitions (DVD image). :-/ > Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=905669 > > Btw.: Ideas how to install F18 anyhow are welcome. > > > Regards > Till > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel USE THE NETINSTALL. http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/18/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-18-x86_64-netinst.iso It works great, and you get the latest packages. Custom partitioning isn't as easy as it was before but basically here's how you do it: Click custom partitioning configuration on the main screen -> "no thanks let me do it myself" -> don't let Anaconda create the partitions -> click + sign -> type the mount point (i.e. / and you can also type swap for swap here too). On a 40GB VM I usually do 2 partitions: 6GB swap partition and the rest to / Dan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
